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HARVARD UNIVERSITY 



FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 

HARVARD COLLEGE 

GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 

GRADUATE SCHOOL OF APPLIED SCIENCE 

GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 



STUDENTS' EXPENSES 



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COLLEGE AIDS 




REVISED EDITION 



CAMBRIDGE, MASS. 

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1908 



HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
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FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 

HARVARD COLLEGE 

GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 

GRADUATE SCHOOL OF APPLIED SCIENCE 

GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 



STUDENTS^ EXPENSES 

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COLLEGE AIDS 

WITH A COLLECTION OF LETTERS 

FROM 

UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE STUDENTS DESCRIBING 
IN DETAIL THEIR NECESSARY EXPENSES AT HARVARD 




CAMBRIDGE, MASS. 

1908 



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STUDENTS' EXPENSES 



Almost every mail brings to the University at least one in- 
quiry about expenses, and very often the writer asks if he can 
work his way through Harvard. It is hard to answer the latter 
question except in the most general way, for whether the writer 
will be successful or not depends chiefly on his own energy and 
ability. The Secretary can assure the questioner that it is pos- 
sible to work one's way through Harvard, for there are always 
many self-supporting students in College, and he can also assure 
him that the experience of many students shows that if a man 
has health, energy, cheerfulness, a good preparation for college 
work, and enough money for the necessary expenses of the first 
year, the chances are that he will never have to turn back. A 
student who obtains a good start is almost sure to find before the 
hrst year is over a way to continue his studies. 

This pamphlet, then, though intended as an answer to the 
frequent questions about expenses, will not explain how a stu- 
dent of small means may work his way through Harvard, for the 
ways are as various as the men using them, and in the main 
•every man must find his own way; but it will perhaps give one 
who is studying the ways and means of obtaining an education 
those facts which will enable him to judge for himself whether 
he can come to Harvard or not. The pamphlet is planned to 
show what the necessary College expenses are, how the College 
helps students in reducing the cost of living, what aid the College 
gives to students of great promise, and how some students have 
successfully solved their problems of obtaining an education at 
Harvard. In the ''General Summary" at the end is some advice 
which, it is hoped, will also be helpful. 

COLLEGE EXPENSES 
Tuition, Board, and Lodging 

College Fees. — Perhaps the largest single expense that the 
student necessarily incurs is the tuition fee of $150. Of this 
$150 ninety dollars must be paid at the beginning of the academic 
year, and the remaining sixty dollars before the beginning of the 



second half-year. In addition to the tuition fees every student is 
required to pay annually an Infirmary fee of four dollars, in return 
for which, in case of sickness, he is given a bed in a ward of the 
Stillman Infirmary, board, and ordinary nursing for a period of 
two weeks. These are the fees which every student must pay. 
There are three other kinds of fees which he may be asked to 
pay: If he takes courses in addition to the number required of 
each student doing full work in his class, school, or programme, 
he is required to pay $20 for each additional course; if he takes 
laboratory courses, he is required to pay special fees to cover 
breakage and use of materials in laboratories; if before taking 
his degree he has incurred fewer than four years' full tuition fees^ 
he is required to pay a graduation fee of twenty dollars. The 
Infirmary fee and laboratory fees for courses which begin in the 
first half-year are charged on the term-bill issued January 20. 

Board. — The second large item of expense for which a student 
must plan is his board. According to information filed at the 
College Office by keepers of boarding and lodging houses, board 
in private houses costs from $3.50 to $8 a week. It is possible 
to get good board at a cheaper rate by joining one of the two 
Dining Associations: the Harvard Dining Association, usually 
known as "Memorial," or the Randall Hall Association. Both 
are cooperative societies managed by students, and both aim to 
provide good board at cost. At '^ Memorial" the cost of a man's 
board is in two parts: the first part is for meat, which he orders 
and pays for by the plate, and special extra orders; the second is 
for all other provisions, such as eggs, fish, tea, coffee, cocoa, milk, 
vegetables, bread, butter, cereals, desserts, fruits, service, and 
the general running expenses, the cost of which is shared alike 
by all. At Randall a man orders everything he eats and drinks, 
and pays for everything by the plate. Of the two halls Memorial 
is the more expensive, though some students who eat little or 
no meat have found that they can board as cheaply at one place 
as at the other. For most men board at Memorial Hall costs 
between four dollars and five dollars and a half a week; at Randall, 
about three dollars a week. Members of the Randall Hall Associa- 
tion also pay an annual membership fee of three dollars, which 
is intended to cover such fixed expenses as heat, light, water, 
etc. For those students who file with the Bursar of the Uni- 
versity the usual four hundred dollar bond, bills for board are 
issued twice a year, in January, and in June one week before 



Commencement. If a student does not file a bond, he must 
deposit money with the Bursar as security for the payment of 
his board at the rate of five dollars a week in advance. If we 
reckon that a college year includes thirty-nine weeks, a student's 
yearly board costs in the vicinity of $117 at Randall, or between 
$156 and $215 at Memorial. It is very desirable that a student 
should either have money set apart for his board before he comes, 
or should know beforehand exactly how he can pay his board 
bills. If he is to do good and effective work he must not be 
harassed by anxiety as to the means of meeting this expense, 
and he must not be tempted into unwise economy in food. 

To obtain admission to Memorial, application should be made 
to the Auditor of the Dining Association, Memorial Hall, before 
September 15th. Vacancies at the beginning of the academic 
year are filled by lot. The names of the successful applicants 
are posted at the Auditor's Office before the opening of the Hall. 
Those who do not obtain seats, together with those applying 
after September 15th in order of application, are placed upon a 
^'waiting list" from which vacancies are filled as they occur. 
To obtain admission to Randall Hall application must be made 
early to the Secretary, Randall Hall Association. The bond or 
deposit above mentioned must be in the Bursar's hands before 
an application can be considered. Blank forms of the bond 
may be obtained from the Bursar. 

Lodging. — The next important expense for every student is 
that of his room. As a rule students live in dormitories owned 
by the University, in which rooms cost from $30 to $350, or in 
private dormitories, which have many luxuries, and are usually 
expensive, or in private houses, in which furnished rooms cost 
from about $50 to about $200 for the academic year. A new 
student should not count on obtaining a room for less than $50, 
and should not expect to obtain one for that sum easily. In the 
college dormitories there are one hundred and fifty rooms which rent 
for $100 or less. If a student obtains one of these rooms and can 
also find a room-mate, he can reduce this item of expense to $50. 

With a few exceptions rooms in college dormitories are 
assigned at an annual allotment, in which all persons who intend 
to be members of the University during the succeeding academic 
year and fulfil certain conditions are permitted to take part. 
Tenants of each year being given an opportunity to re-engage 
their rooms, a list of rooms available for the next year is pub- 



lished by the Bursar about one month before the allotment; and 
copies of the list with blank forms of application are given to 
all applicants. The date before which the right of re-engaging 
rooms must be exercised, the date on which the list of available 
rooms is published, the date before which applications for rooms 
to be assigned by lot must be filed, and the date on which the 
result of the allotment is published are annually announced in 
the University Catalogue. 

In applying for a room the student, using the prescribed form,, 
places on a list in the order of his preference every room that he 
is willing to engage. When his name is drawn he is given the 
first unassigned room on his list. Two persons wishing to room 
together who sign one application are given a double chance in 
the allotment. 

Of special interest to graduate students is the recent change 
in the management of Conant Hall, a large modern brick dormi- 
tory, conveniently situated on Oxford street. This has been 
recently set aside for the particular use of students in the Grad- 
uate School of Arts and Sciences. The building contains twenty- 
nine suites of study and bedroom, of which twelve are furnished,, 
and twenty-six single rooms. All the rooms are heated with 
hot water. The rents, including heat, run from $60 to $120 for 
single rooms, and from $150 to $210 for suites. The building, 
is well supplied on each floor with shower baths, with hot and 
cold water. There is a large living room on the first floor. All 
inquiries in regard to rooms in Conant Hall should be addressed 
to the Secretary of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences- 
Similarly addressed may be inquiries concerning the North End 
of College House, where twenty-six convenient and neatly fur- 
nished rooms and suites at rentals of $30 to $100 are reserved 
for students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. 

The student who is not successful in obtaining a room in a 
college dormitory must search for a room in a private house. 
In this search he should survey the ground very carefully before 
making his choice, and in engaging his room should have a thor- 
ough understanding, expressed in writing, as to just what he 
pays for and as to the amount and times of payment. For the 
mutual convenience of students and landlords a list of rooms in 
private lodging houses, with their prices, is kept at the College 
Office, and may be obtained by applying to the Secretary. 

These three expenses of tuition, board, and lodging, when 
reduced to their lowest terms, can hardly amount to less than 



$300. Over other expenses, such as furniture, books, fuel, light, 
etc., the student has more control; and these will vary much 
with individual needs and tastes. In keeping expenses down 
the student is greatly helped by other institutions as well as 
by Memorial and Randall halls, which have been already men- 
tioned — namely, the Loan Furniture Association, Text-Book 
Loan Library, the Cooperative Society, the Union, Phillips 
Brooks House, the Stillman Infirmary, and the numerous libraries 
of the University. 

COLLEGE INSTITUTIONS WHICH HELP TO KEEP 
DOWN THE COST OF LIVING 

The Dining Halls. — The Dining Halls have already been men- 
tioned under the price of board, but perhaps a student who lives 
at some distance from Cambridge may be interested to learn 
more about them. 

Memorial Hall. — Memorial Hall forms part of a building 
which also includes Sanders Theatre — the principal place of 
assembly on occasions of academic ceremonial. The two are 
separated by a transept which together with the Hall was built 
as a memorial to the sons of Harvard who fought for the preser- 
vation of the Union, and especially to those who fell. In this 
transept, above the wainscoting, the two rising to a height of 
twenty-four feet, are marble tablets inscribed with the names 
of those who fell in the war for the Union. 

The dining hall which occupies the long western portion of 
the building is 149 feet long, 60 feet wide, and, to the ridge, 66 
feet high. There are 850 seats in the hall, and by assigning to 
each table more men than can be seated at one time, as many 
as 1,320 persons can easily be accommodated. Everything per- 
taining to the operation of the building, including the manu- 
facture of ice and electricity, is provided within the hall. Those 
who take their meals here constitute the Harvard Dining Asso- 
ciation, and through a Board of Directors chosen by the members 
administer under certain regulations of the President and Fellows 
the affairs of the Association. 

Inside the Hall are busts and portraits of alumni and bene- 
factors, each marked with the name of the subject and the artist. 
The great western window shows the armorial bearings of the 
nation, the state, and the University. The stained glass win- 



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dows on the north and the south are all memorial windows, most 
of them given by college classes and designed by famous artists. 

RandaU HaU, at the corner of Kirkland street and Divinity 
avenue, was built to accommodate the overflow of students unable 
to obtam board at Memorial Hall, and also with a design to 
furnish cheaper board than is offered by the Memorial Hall 

Association. 

The dining room is large enough to contain 44 tables seating 
528 persons at the same time; but a larger number is accommo- 
dated. 

The system of employing students as waiters at Randall Hall 
gives employment to about one hundred men, who thereby earn 
enough, or nearly enough, to pay for their board. The average 
earnings of student waiters is between three dollars and three 
dollars and a half a week. Waiters are engaged in the order in 
which they make application. Applications should be addressed 
to the Manager of Randall Hall. 

Loan Furniture Association. — A limited number of students 
may be helped to furnish their rooms at small cost by the Loan 
Furniture Association. This Association owns furniture, and 
loans It at a yearly rental of 10 per cent, of its estimated value 
A complete set of furniture, for instance, valued at $50, is rented 
for a year at $5. Parts of sets are rented on approximately the 
same terms. Every student leasing furniture is required to pay 
the yearly rent in advance, and also to deposit a sum of money 
(ordinarily $2.50) as a guarantee in part for the safe return of 
the furniture. This deposit is given back to him when he returns 
the furniture in good condition. The primary purpose of the 
Association is to be of use to students who must exercise strict 
economy, but any student registered in any department of the 
University may freely apply for furniture. Applications, to be 
successful, should be made early to the Agent of the Loan Fur- 
niture Association, Massachusetts Hall, Cambridge. 

Text-Book Loan Library. - The Text-Book Loan Library, es- 
tablished in 1906 by the Social Service Committee at Phillips 
Brooks House, now contains over 400 text-books which are in 
present use in courses of study now given in the University 
Most of the books are for college courses, but there are a few 
Law School and Medical School books. An effort is being made 
to enlarge the number of available books on all University courses, 



as an urgent need has been made apparent by the number of 
calls for books which could not be supplied. The books are 
loaned to any member of the University on a deposit of 15 cents 
for smaller books and 25 cents for larger ones. The deposit is 
refunded upon the return of the book by the borrower. Last 
year 37 men borrowed 127 books. Up to February 1st of the 
present college year 59 men have borrowed 211 books. 

The Harvard Cooperative Society is a department store con- 
ducted for the benefit of the student body by a Board of Direc- 
tors chosen from instructors and students, and is open for mem- 
bership to all persons connected with Harvard University, 
Radcliffe College, or the Episcopal Theological School; also to 
former members of the University. Any student may join the 
Society by registering at the Office of the Society, Lyceum Build- 
ing, and paying the annual membership fee of one dollar. At 
the end of the fiscal year a dividend, based upon the amount of 
their purchases, is declared to members. The rate of dividend 
for 1906-07 was 8 per cent., and the amount given back to mem- 
bers was $13,500. 

The object of the Society is to reduce the cost of living at the 
University, and it exists solely for that purpose. It affords at its 
store special facilities for the purchase of all kinds of students' 
supplies at the lowest prices. Necessary and staple articles, 
such as text-books, note-books, laboratory utensils, and special 
outfits for the Engineering, Architectural and Fine Arts courses, 
are accordingly sold at a slight advance above cost. 

The Cooperative Society does a business of over $300,000 a 
year and owns a four-floored building in Harvard Square which 
is occupied exclusively in the conduct of its retail business. In 
its departments are for sale text-books, both new and second- 
hand, covering all the courses given by the University, sta- 
tionery and engraving, picture-framing, photographic goods, 
toilet articles, artists' materials and drawing instruments, men's 
furnishings, including shoes, hats and caps, ready-made clothing, 
athletic goods, laundry w^ork, clothes pressing and shoe repairing, 
custom tailoring, furniture and rugs, coal and wood. It also 
makes contracts with other retail dealers whereby members may 
secure discounts on purchases for cash at other stores. 

The Cooperative also furnishes work to students. Owing to the 
great amount of work at the opening of the college year, and 
again at the Christmas season, the store is in need of good men 
for extra help. This affords an excellent chance to students, 



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especially men who have had some business experience, to earn 
money without seriously interfering with their college work. In 
many cases the training received at the Cooperative has greatly 
aided students afterward. 

The Harvard Union. — The Harvard Union is a gift to the 
University by Major Henry L. Higginson, and is, in his own 
words, "A house open to all Harvard men without restriction 
and in which they all stand equal, — a house bearing no name 
forever except that of our University." 

The Union is the most inclusive of all Harvard clubs. Its 
membership is open to all past and present members of Harvard 
University, whether their connection is that of students or offi- 
cers. It is thus a common meeting ground and place of convenient 
resort for all Harvard men, since it accommodates under one roof 
a great many of the interests which bring Harvard men together^ 
and also provides the conveniences of a large and well-appointed 
club house. It is also the accepted place for University mass, 
meetings, and the large gatherings of graduates and undergrad- 
uates occasioned by important athletic contests. 

The building consists of a basement and three floors, and 
covers an area of quarter of an acre. In the basement are the 
kitchens, store rooms, engine room, toilet and bath rooms, billiard 
room, barber shop, and a suite of rooms used for offices and com- 
posing room by the Harvard Criinson. On the main floor, open- 
ing directly from the entrance hall, is the great Living Room 
(nearly 100 feet long by 40 feet wide). Its walls of panelled 
oak are hung with portraits, and there are two large open hearths 
for wood fires at opposite ends of the room. Daily newspapers 
from the principal cities of the United States are kept on file. 
Small tables are available for after-dinner coffee or light refresh- 
ments. Occasionally smokers, open to members, are held here^ 
at which entertainment is furnished by the University musical 
clubs, or by readings, addresses, etc. On the left are the dining 
rooms — a large one for general use, a small one for the Univer- 
sity athletic teams. Adjoining the Living Room on the right 
are periodical, game, and writing rooms. In the second story is 
a well chosen library of over six thousand volumes, contained 
in three connecting rooms which give direct access to the shelves 
and afford an agreeable privacy to readers. The Library Com- 
mittee enjoys the interested cooperation of the University Lib- 
rary and of several officers of the University, On the same 
floor is the Trophy Room, which contains an interesting series 



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of athletic trophies won by University teams, a committee room, 
an assembly room, and a ladies' dining room, to which there is 
a separate entrance. The upper story provides quarters for the 
Advocate and the Monthly, and bedrooms for a few transient 
guests. The Athletic Association has an office under the pavilion. 

The Union is managed by a board of officers chosen annually 
by the active members in all departments of the University. A 
board of seven trustees, appointed in the first instance by the 
Corporation, holds the title to the property, and has general 
oversight of its vital interests. The expense of running the 
Union is about $30,000 a year, which includes about $2000 for 
ground rent. Annual membership costs $10 for active, $5 for 
associate, and $3 for non-resident members; life membership for 
graduates is $50, and for students, $75. The present member- 
ship of the Union is about 4000. Of this number over 2000 are 
active student members and about 1150 are life members. 

To a student who must economize in every way ten dollars 
may seem a large expense, and joining the Union one of those 
luxuries which he must forego. It will probably be wiser for 
him to regard this ten dollars as so much room rent; especially 
if he has been compelled to hire a small room at a distance from 
the College. By joining the Union he will have daily access to 
sunny, well-heated rooms where he can always find a quiet corner 
for study and the companionship of books and men. 

Phillips Brooks House. — The House erected as a Memorial of 
Phillips Brooks was dedicated on January 23, 1900, and provides 
an important reinforcement of the religious life of the Univer- 
sity. Phillips Brooks House was originally designed to extend 
and unite many scattered undertakings of religion and philan- 
thropy in the University. It was to represent, as the first appeal 
for such a building stated, "one more step in the comprehensive 
plan of religious work of which the establishment of the Board 
of Preachers was the first step." Phillips Brooks House is a 
centre for the social and charitable activities of the University 
as well as for religious meetings, a kind of Parish House connected 
with the administration of the College Chapel. The tablet which 
stands in its vestibule accurately describes its purpose : — 

THIS HOUSE IS DEDICATED TO 

PIETY, CHARITY, HOSPITALITY, 

IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF 

PHILLIPS BROOKS 



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The second and a part of the third floor of the House are ex- 
pressly arranged for the work of the various religious societies. 
On the third floor is a large meeting room, named in memory of 
the beloved Professor Andrew P. Peabody, Peabody Hall; a part 
of the first floor is assigned to the charities directed by students; 
a study is provided for students who desire a quieter resort than 
the crowded reading-rooms of the Library; and the Brooks Parlor 
is arranged as a dignified place for receptions and meetings. 
Here, on Friday afternoons, students are welcomed at informal 
teas given by wives of University officers. Phillips Brooks House 
recognizes the inevitable differences of religious affiliation, and 
makes room for all such associations under one roof, and in close 
relation with the practical generosity and social fellowship of 
the University. 

Brooks House, like the Union, helps to simplify the problem 
of living by affording quiet rooms for study and the companion- 
ship of earnest, serious men. It also cooperates with the Appoint- 
ments Office in obtaining work for men in connection with relig- 
ious and philanthropic organizations. Besides these services it 
also tries to obtain each year lists of rooms in the vicinity of the 
College which can be recommended to students who are looking 
for rooms at reasonable rates. Often men are sent out with new 
students to help them in finding good rooms. 

The Stillman Infirmary, the gift of Mr. James Stillman of New 
York, was erected in 1901 to serve as a hospital for students of 
Harvard University. It is situated on Mt. Auburn street, about 
half a mile from the College Yard, and commands the Charles 
River Parkway and Soldier's Field, a location which insures 
abundant air and sunshine. The main building has nine private 
rooms and two wards, each of the latter having space for ten 
beds. An open corridor leads to a second building, especially 
constructed for contagious diseases, which contains three isola- 
tion wards of ten beds each and six private rooms. The disin- 
fecting room and laundry are located in the basement of the 
(Connecting corridor. The operating room is located in the main 
building, as are also the nurses' and servants' dining-rooms, the 
kitchen, and the heating plant for both buildings. Indirect 
steam heat is the method employed. The matron, the head 
nurse, and her assistants are all graduate nurses of thorough 
training and experience. 

In return for an annual fee of four dollars, which is charged on 
the February term-bills of all students registered in the Cambridge 



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departments of the University, but the payment of which is 
optional for students registered in the Boston departments and 
for unmarried officers of instruction or administration, any sick 
student or unmarried officer is admitted to the Infirmary and is 
given, without further charge, a bed in a ward, board, and ordi- 
nary nursing for a period not exceeding two weeks in any one 
academic year. Students registered in the Boston departments 
of the University and unmarried officers are required to pay the 
fee on or before October 10 in each academic year in order to 
secure the above-mentioned benefits for that year. Except as 
above provided the regular charge for a bed in a ward, with 
board and ordinary nursing, is two dollars a day. Extra charges 
are made for private rooms and special nurses. It is expected 
that patients shall pay their physicians, but needy students are 
attended by the Medical Visitor without charge. 

The Infirmary has proved of inestimable value not only by 
meeting the demands of serious cases, both medical and surgical, 
and by providing effective means for the treatment and control 
of contagious diseases, but also by furnishing in trivial cases 
the simple diet and care necessary for their relief which the patient 
might obtain at home, but which are not available in lodgings. 

The Libraries. — The College Library in Gore Hall is for the 
use of the whole University. All students who have given bonds 
may take out books, three volumes at a time, and may keep 
them one month. Officers of the University have direct access 
to the shelves in all parts of the library, and students engaged 
in advanced work, upon recommendation by their instructors, 
are allowed access to those parts of the collection with which 
they are occupied. All students have the direct use of about 
24,700 volumes in the reading room and the adjoining rooms. 
Of these 3350 are bound periodicals, 4900, miscellaneous refer- 
ence books, 5350, government documents, and over 11,100 are 
books withdrawn from time to time from general circulation at 
the request of instructors and ''reserved" on shelves in the 
reading room for use in connection with the courses of instruction. 

In addition to the College Library in Gore Hall, the University 
Library embraces the libraries of the several departments of the 
University, which are classed as Departmental Libraries, and a 
number of Special Reference Libraries maintained in the various 
branches of study pursued under the direction of the Faculty of 
Arts and Sciences. 



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The Special Reference Libraries, mentioned above, are none of 
them contained in Gore Hall, though all are administered more 
or less closely in connection with the College Library and in some 
degree through the staff of that Library. Some are in buildings 
devoted to the use of single departments (philosophy, social 
ethics, architecture, engineering, etc.) and are cared for by special 
attendants; others are in the nature of laboratory collections and 
are necessarily placed where they are easily accessible to labora- 
tory workers (chemistry, physics, mining, etc.); others are for 
the use of students in advanced courses and give something of 
the quiet and retirement of a private library (classics, Child 
Memorial, French, etc.); others again are designed to serve the 
needs of large elementary classes for which a considerable number 
of copies of the most used books are required (history, American 
history, economics, etc.). 

In all there are thirty-nine libraries in the University contain- 
ing, in 1907-08, 768,800 volumes and over 331,000 pamphlets. 

The facilities for obtaining books offered by the libraries enable 
a student who must economize in every way to reduce his expenses 
for books to the cost of the text-books which he must use every 
day. The cost of these is reduced to the lowest prices by the 
Harvard Cooperative Society. 

FELLOWSHIPS, SCHOLARSHIPS, AND OTHER AIDS 

FOR STUDENTS UNDER THE FACULTY OF 

ARTS AND SCIENCES 

General Statement. — There are under the Faculty of Arts and 
Sciences at present 285 fellowships and scholarships, with a 
total income of $63,530. Of these, one hundred and fifty-eight 
scholarships, with an income of $36,105, are for undergraduates 
in Harvard College, and for these undergraduates there is also 
available from the Beneficiary Aids, the Loan Funds, and the 
Price Greenleaf Fund, $22,800. 

Scholarships in Harvard College and Other College Aids. — With 

a few exceptions all scholarships in Harvard College are awarded 
to Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors on the basis of a previous 
year's work in College. Two scholarships, the Mary L. Whitney 
($300) and the Scholarship of the Class of 1867 ($175), are an- 
nually awarded to Freshmen on the basis of their work during 
the first half-year. The Crowninshield Scholarships ($225), of 



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which there are two, are also occasionally open to Freshmen. 
These scholarships are not open to competition annually, because 
they may be held during the whole undergraduate course. None 
of these Freshman scholarships may be applied for until after the 
applicant has become a member of the College. With these three 
exceptions there are no scholarships for which Freshmen may 
apply unless they have a special claim upon a particular scholar- 
ship because of their descent from the founder or from some 
member of the class that established the scholarship, or because 
they fulfil other peculiar conditions prescribed by the founder of 
the scholarship. Among the scholarships that are awarded on 
the grounds of special claim are the Matthews Scholarships to 
those intending to enter the Episcopal ministry, the Buckley 
Scholarships for graduates of Cambridge schools, the Normal 
School scholarships, and the scholarships of the Harvard clubs of 
Cleveland, Lowell, Missouri, New Jersey, and Philadelphia. The 
special terms under which some scholarships are assigned may 
be learned by consulting the full list of scholarships in the Uni- 
versity Catalogue. 

The facts considered in making an assignment of a scholarship 
are the needs of the student, and his promise as indicated by his 
work in College. A student who is not in need of aid cannot 
honorably apply for a scholarship; a scholarship cannot properly 
be awarded to one who, from physical, mental, or moral weakness, 
gives little promise of future usefulness. Scholarships are ordi- 
narily assigned only on the basis of a previous year of work in 
College. The enjoyment of a scholarship for one year will not 
constitute any title to a second nomination, unless the superiority 
for which it was originally awarded be fully maintained; and at 
any time a scholarship or any portion thereof may be taken 
away from a student who has proved undeserving. No student 
who has incurred a serious College censure in the course of the 
year will be considered a candidate for a scholarship; nor any 
student who obtains leave of absence for the year in which the 
scholarship would be payable. 

In order to be considered an applicant for a scholarship a stu- 
dent must apply on blank forms furnished by the College on or 
before the last Wednesday in May. 

The full list of scholarships now available (1907-08) in Har- 
vard College is as follows : — 



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Summary. 

Name (with Date of Foundation). No. 

Richard Augustine Gambrill (1890) 1 

Henry B. Humphrey (1890) 1 

Sahonstall (1733) 1 

Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar (1895) 1 

Philadelphia (1904) 1 

John Appleton Haven (1902) 1 

Charles Wyman (1905) 1 

Morey (1868) 1 

Class of 1802 (1870) 1 

Toppan (1868) .... * 1 

Matthews (1870) 15 

Class of 1856 (1885) 2 

Price Greenleaf (1887) 10 

Charles Haven Goodwin (1889) 1 

Mary L. Whitney (1903) 1 

Harvard Club of Cleveland (1906) 1 

Warren H. Cudworth 2 

Rufus Sterling Choate (1884) 1 

Hollis (1722) 1 

Kirkland (1852) 1 

Bowditch (1860) 20 

Bigelow (1865) 2 

Farrar (1873) 1 

William Samuel Eliot (1875) 1 

Levina Hoar (1876) 1 

Slade (1877) 1 

Richard Manning Hodges (1878) . ........ 1 

Bartlett (1881) 1 

Harvard Club of New Jersey (1907) 1 

Lady Mowlson (1643) 1 

Lucy Osgood (1873) 1 

WilHam Whiting (1874) 2 

Crowninshield (1877) 2 

Edward Russell (1877) 1 

Bright (1880) 5 

William Merrick (1888) 1 

Hilton (1897) 1 

Howard Gardner Nichols (1897) 1 

Class of 1883 (1900) 1 

Sewall (1696) 2 

Class of 1841 (1871) 1 

Dana, of the Class of 1852 (1876) 1 

George Emerson Lowell (1886) 2 

Julius Dexter (1892) 1 

Burr (1895) 6 

Joseph Eveleth (1896) 2 

Morey Willard Buckminster (1898) 1 



Stipend. 


Total. 


$450 


$450 


450 


450 


425 


425 


425 


425 


425 


425 


400 


400 


400 


400 


325 


325 


325 


325 


300 


300 


300 


4.500 


300 


600 


300 


3.000 


300 


300 


300 


300 


300 


300 


300 


600 


275 


275 


250 


250 


250 


250 


250 


5,000 


250 


500 


250 


250 


250 


250 


250 


250 


250 . 


250 


250 


250 


250 


250 


250 


250 


225 


225 


225 


225 


225 


450 


225 


450 


225 


225 


225 


1,125 


225 


225 


225 


225 


225 


225 


225 


225 


200 


400 


200 


200 


200 


200 


200 


400 


200 


200 


200 


1,200 


200 


400 


200 


200 



17 



Jacob Wendell (1899) 

C. L. Jones (1901) ^ 

Class of 1877 (1902) 

Harvard Club of Buffalo (1903) 

Dunlap Smith (1903) 

Edward Erwin Coolidge (1906) 

Class of 1817 (1852) 

Class of 1835 (1853) 

Class of 1867 (1886) ^ 

Story (1864) .... 

Browne (1687) 

Mary Saltonstall (1730) 

Abbot (1852) 

Henry Bromfield Rogers (1859) 

Benjamin D. Greene (1863) 

Sever (1868) 

Rebecca A. Perkins (1869) 

Normal School (1880) 

Class of 1828 (1882) 

Markoe (1903) 

Edward Erwin Coolidge (1906) 

Daniel A. Buckley (1907) 

William Reed (1907) 

Class of 1814 (1853) 

Walcott (1855) 

Orlando W. Doe (1893) 

Sales (1893) 

Newsboys' Harvard (1906) 

Bassett (1876) 

Palfrey Exhibition (1821) 

Fall River (1893) 

Wendell Phillips Memorial (1895) 

158 



1 


$200 


$200 


6 


200 


1,200 




200 


200 




200 


200 




200 


200 




200 


400 




175 


175 




175 


175 




175 


175 




175 


175 




150 


150 




150 


300 




150 


150 




150 


150 




150 


150 




150 


150 




150 


150 




150 


600 




150 


150 




150 


150 




150 


300 




150 


900 




150 


150 




125 


125 




100 


200 




100 


100 




100 


200 




100 


100 




90 


270 




80 


80 




80 


80 




50 


50 



$ 36,105 



Price Greenleaf Aid for Freshmen and Other First-Year Students 

in Harvard CoUege. — Though there is very little aid m the 

form of scholarships for first-year students, the College is able to 

help about one hundred men yearly from the Price Greenleaf 

Fund, the annual income of which is about sixteen thousand 

dollars This Fund was established by the generous bequest of 

Ezekiel Price Greenleaf of Quincy, Mass. The income of the 

Fund is distributed in sums of from one hundred to two hundred 

and fifty dollars: first, to undergraduates who are candidates for 

the degree of Bachelor of Arts, in the first year of their residence 

(whether Freshmen or students admitted to advanced standing, 

with or without examination); secondly, to deserving students 

who have not succeeded in the competition for scholarships. 



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The regular assignment to first-year students is made before or 
at the time of their entrance. (The first awards are usually 
made about June 20.) To hope for a share in this assignment 
the applicant must be strongly recommended by the college, 
academy, or school with which he has been- connected; and must 
see that his application is in the hands of the Secretary by the 
first day of May. A subsequent assignment is made in February 
to some other first-year students of. high standing; applications 
must be in the hands of the Secretary by the fifteenth day of 
December. 

In every case the amount assigned is payable (but only to per- 
sons who may be undergraduates at the time of payment) in two 
instalments, at the times when the two term-bills of the year are 
presented. The recipients of Price Greenleaf Aid may be called 
upon for service as monitors or assistants to an amount not 
exceeding four hours a week. 

Other Aids for Students in Harvard College. — In addition to 
scholarships and Price Greenleaf Aid students may be helped by 
the Beneficiary Funds and the Loan Fund. 

The Beneficiary Funds yield an annual income of about $2800, 
which is usually distributed in gratuities of not more than fifty 
dollars each. 

Applications for aid from the Beneficiary Funds, except' where 
otherwise stated in the list given in the Catalogue, should be 
addressed to the Dean of Harvard College, by the student's parent 
or guardian, or by the student himself, if of age. The applica- 
tion should state particularly the circumstances of the case, with 
the reasons for asking aid. No application for any academic year 
will be received before the first day of August in the summer 
preceding the beginning of that year. 

The Loan Fund yields an annual income of about $4000, which 
is lent to meritorious students in the Sophomore, Junior, and 
Senior classes, in sums ranging from $40 to $75. This fund is 
under the control of a Board of Trustees in Boston. 

Applications for the Loan Fund should be left with the Dean 
of Harvard College as early as the first day of December. 

Scholarships for Special Students. — For Special Students there 
are only two Eveleth scholarships, of $200 each. 

The Dean also has $1000 a year from the Edward Austin Fund 
from which he may make small loans to Special Students. 



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PeUowships aad Scholarships in the Graduate School of Arts and 
Sciences — There are in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 
twenty-five endowed fellowships, with annual incomes of from 
$450 to $1000 each, and an aggregate income of $14,500; about 
thirty Austin Teaching Fellowships of $500 each, m connection 
with which a certain amount of instruction or assistance m in- 
struction is required; an indeterminate number (ordinarily from 
two to five) of John Harvard Fellowships without stipend; ninety- 
two endowed scholarships of from $150 to $400 each, w th a 
total annual income of $20,150; and the scholarships of the 
Harvard Clubs of Chicago, Louisiana, St. Louis, and San Fran- 
cisco of from $250 to $450 each, which are assigned under the 
direction of these Clubs. A list of these appointments, exclusive 
of the John Harvard Fellowships and the Teaching Fellowships, 

is given below. 

Fellowships. 



Name (with Date of Foundation). 
Edward William Hooper (1905) .... 

Parker (1873) 

Rogers (1869) 

South End House (1900) 

Charles Eliot Norton (1901) 

In Social Education (1907) 

In Central American Archaeology (1907) 

Harris (1868) 

John Thornton Kirkland (1873) .... 

James Walker (1881) 

John Tyndall (1885) 

Robert Treat Paine (1887) 

Henry Lee Memorial (1889) 

Ozias Goodwin Memorial (1889) .... 
Henry Bromfield Rogers Memorial (1889) 

Hemenway (1891) 

Edward Austin (1900) 

Francis Parkman (1906) 

Willard (1907) 



No. 
1 
3 
2 



Scholarships. 



Name (with Date of Foundation). 
Harvard Club of San Francisco (1886) . 

Christopher M. Weld (1899) 

Leverett Saltonstall (1895) 

Shattuck (1854) 

Thayer (1857) 

Toppan (1868) 



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No. 
1 
1 
1 

7 

10 

1 



Annual 
Stipend. 

$1,000 

750 

725 

600 

600 

600 

600 

500 

500 

500 

500 

500 

500 

500 

500 

500 

500 

450 

450 



Annual 
Stipend. 

$450 

400 

325 

300 

300 

300 



Total. 
$1,000 
2,250 
1,450 
600 
600 
600 
600 
500 
500 
500 
500 
500 
500 
500 
500 
500 
2,000 
450 
450 

$14,500 



Total. 



400 

325 

2,100 

3,000 

300 



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James Savage (1873) 

Charles Haven Goodwin (1889) 

Harvard Club of Chicago (1893) 

Whiting (1895) 

Harvard Club of St. Louis (1900) 

Townsend (1861) 

George and Martha Derby (1881) 

Virginia Barret Gibbs (1892) 

Austin for Teachers (1899) 15 

George Foster Peabody (1902) 

Harvard Club of Louisiana (1904) 

Robert C. Winthrop (1895) 

George H. Emerson (1903) 

George W. Dillaway (1903) 

Gorham Thomas (1865) 

University (1891) 40 

96 



1 $300 


$300 


1 300 


300 


1 300 


300 


3 300 


900 


1 300 


300 


4 250 


1,000 


1 250 


250 


1 250 


250 


5 250 


3,750 


1 250 


250 


1 250 


250 


1 225 


225 


2 225 


450 


1 200 


200 


1 150 


150 


150 


6 000 



$21,450 



Many of the fellowships may be awarded to advanced students 
of high promise who wish to continue their studies in Europe, 
and usually from twelve to fifteen are so assigned, — a generous 
provision for foreign study which no other American university 
rivals. The income of the Frederick Sheldon Fund of about 
five hundred thousand dollars will also be available in the 
near future for travelling fellowships. An appointment to a 
travelling fellowship is awarded only to a graduate of some 
department of Harvard University, or to a student who has 
pursued his studies at the University for several years. But 
the resident appointments may be, and some of them are, 
bestowed on persons not previously members of the University. 
All appointments are open only to students who have given 
evidence of ability and promise in special departments of study, 
and ordinarily only to those who need such assistance in order 
to carry on satisfactorily their graduate studies. For the John 
Harvard Fellowships, which are without stipend, nominations 
are made by the several Divisions of the Faculty, and no 
applications are received. A description of the various fellow- 
ships and scholarships, and a statement of the special condi- 
tions which are in some cases attached to them, may be found 
in the University Catalogue or in the Catalogue of the Graduate 
School of Arts and Sciences. 

Appointments to fellowships and scholarships in the Graduate 
School of Arts and Sciences for any academic year are made (in 
most cases) by the Corporation, on recommendation by the 
Faculty of Arts and Sciences, towards the close of the preceding 



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academic year. Applications for appointment or reappointment 
should be sent in as early as possible, in order to facilitate the 
work of examination and comparison. Applications received 
after the fifteenth day of March are not ordinarily considered in 
the regular assignment. Blanks for applications may be ob- 
tained from the Secretary of the Graduate School of Arts and 
Sciences. A new applicant, not already a student at Harvard 
University, should accompany his application with testimonials 
from those best qualified to speak with confidence of his qualities, 
attainments, and promise, and by such other documents as he 
may think proper to send. All applications should be addressed 
to The Committee on Fellowships, Office of the Graduate School 
of Arts and Sciences, No. 10 University Hall, Cambridge, Mass. 
A few appointments are commonly made after the beginning 
of the academic year, to fill vacancies arising from withdrawals 
and other causes. For these appointments applications received 
later than March 15 may be considered. 

Fellowships ajtid Scholarships in the Graduate School of AppHed 
Science. — The following fellowships and scholarships are at 
present (1907-08) available for students in the Graduate School 
of Applied Science : — 

Travelling Fellowships. 

No. Value. Total. 

Appleton Travelling Fellowship in Architecture ... 1 $1,000 $1,000 
Robinson " " " ... 1 1,000 1,000 

2 $2,000 

Resident Scholarships. 

Hennen Jennings Scholarship in Mining 1 $425 $425 

Austin Scholarships in Architecture 2 300 600 

" " " Landscape Architecture .... 1 300 300 
Francis Hathaway Cummings Scholarship in AppKed 
Botany, Landscape Gardening, Horticulture, Arbori- 
culture, and Forestry 1 225 225 

George H. Emerson Scholarships in Zoology, Geology, 

Mineralogy, and Chemistry 2 225 450 

Edward Dyer Peters Scholarship in Mining 1 250 250 

Warren Delano Jr. Scholarship (loan) 1 250 250 

Hilton Scholarship 1 225 225 

Joseph Eveleth Scholarships 3 200 600 

Architectural League Scholarships 3 150 450 

Priscilla Clark Hodges Scholarship 1 150 150 

University Scholarships 13 150 1,950 

Henry Weidemann Locke Scholarship 1 100 100 

31 $5,975 



'^'^ 



Applications for the fellowships in Architecture must be sent 
to the Chairman of the Department of Architecture before the first 
day of March of the year in which the candidates expect to pre- 
sent themselves for examination. 

Applications for resident scholarships should be addressed to 
the Dean of the School, 16 University Hall, Cambridge, Mass 
and must be received not later than September 1. Application 
blanks may be obtained from this office. 

Teaching Appointments and Proctorships. — A considerable num- 
ber of teaching appointments, comprising instructorships, Austin 
Teachmg Fellowships, and assistantships, are annually assigned 
to suitably qualified students in the Graduate School of Arts and 
Sciences and in the other graduate and professional schools of 
the University. Appointments to these positions are made by 
the Corporation, on the recommendation of the several Divisions 
and Departments. 

Proctorships in dormitories, or positions on the Board of Ex- 
amination Proctors, are sometimes open to advanced students 
Appointments are made by the Corporation, on the nomination 
respectively of the Regent and of the Chairman of the Board of 
Examination Proctors. 

Prizes. — The amount of money distributed each year in prizes 
to students in departments under the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, 
if worthy competitors appear for each prize, is $4,070. Full 
mformation about the conditions attached to each prize is given 
m the University Catalogue. The list of prizes is as follows: — 

BowDoiN Prizes for Dissertations in English. — For Under- 
graduates, four prizes, a First Prize of $250, and three Second Prizes 
one of $200 and two of $100 each. For Graduates, three prizes of $200 
each. 

BowDoiN Prizes for Dissertations in Greek and Latin — For 
Undergraduates, two prizes of $50 each: one for a translation into Attic 
Greek of a specified passage in English, and one for a translation into 
Latin of a specified passage in English. For Graduates, a prize of $100 
for an original essay in either Latin or Greek. 

BoYLSTON Prizes for Elocution. — Two First Prizes of $60 each and 
three Second Prizes of $45 each. 

CooLiDGE Debating Prizes. -Two prizes of equal amount derived 
from the income of a fund of $5000. These prizes are awarded at the 
trial debates for the selection of Harvard debaters in intercollegiate 
contests. 



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Dante Prize, — One prize of $100 for an essay on a subject drawn 
from the Life or Works of Dante. 

Sargent Prize. — A prize of $100 for the best metrical translation of 
a lyric poem of Horace. 

George B. Sohier Prize. — A prize of $250 for the best thesis pre- 
sented by a successful candidate for Honors in English or in Modern 
Literature. 

Sales Prize. — A prize of $45 for proficiency in Spanish. 

Philip Washburn Prize. — A prize of $75 for the best thesis, of suf- 
ficient merit, on an historical subject presented by a successful candidate 
for Honors in History, or in Political Science, whose main work is in 
History. 

David A. Wells Prize. — A prize of $500 for a thesis embodying the 
results of original investigation within the field of Economics. 

Toppan Prize. — A prize of $150 for the best essay of sufficient merit 
on a subject in Political Science. 

Sumner Prize. — A prize of $100 for the best dissertation on a subject 
connected with the topic of Universal Peace and the methods by which 
War may be permanently superseded. 

Bennett Prize. — A prize of $45 for the best essay in English prose 
on some subject of American governmental, domestic, or foreign policy, 
of contemporaneous interest. 

RiCARDO Prize Scholarship. — A competitive scholarship of $350. 



Francis Boott Prize. 
concerted vocal music. 



A prize of $100 for the best composition in 



Jeremy Belknap Prize. — A prize of $50 for the best French essay 
written by a first-year student in Harvard College. 

Harvard Menorah Society Prize. — A prize of $100 for an essay 
by an Undergraduate in Harvard College on a subject connected with 
the work and achievements of the Jewish people. 

Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize. — A prize of $100 for the best poem 
on a subject or subjects annually to be chosen and announced by a com- 
mittee of the Department of English. 

Susan Anthony Potter Prizes. — (1) A prize of $100 for the best 
essay on any topic in Comparative Literature approved by the Chairman 
of the Department. (2) A prize of $50 for the best essay on some topic 
concerning European Literature in the Middle Ages or the Renaissance. 
(3) A prize of $50 for the best essay on a subject dealing with the 
Spanish Literature of the Golden Age. 



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The Appointments Office. — The work of the Appointments 
Office consists of securing for Harvard men who have left the 
University positions in business or as teachers, and of helping 
students to find ways of earning money during term-time and in 
vacation. The Office acts as a middleman, bringing together 
students needing work and persons seeking such help as students 
can give. 

Ever since this Office was established by Mr. Frank Bolles in 
1887-88 it has grown steadily, and it has now become the most 
effective means within the University of helping students of real 
ability. To the student who must make his way, both in the 
University and in the world, this Office gives assurance that if 
he is a useful man every effort will be made to help him turn 
that usefulness to good account. The greatest difficulty the 
Office experiences is that of supplying the demand for really 
first-rate men. A newcomer should remember, however, that 
the "first-rate man" does not depend solely on the Office for 
help, but relies first of all upon himself. No person is ever recom- 
mended for a position simply because he is unemployed. The 
Office adheres strictly to the principle that work shall be given 
only to those who can do it well. 

The following statements from a number of students selected 
largely at random all demonstrate the same fact: that a young 
man of activity and determination will find at Harvard more 
than enough work- to insure a livelihood. Their achievements 
are the more suggestive because the young men, all from a dis- 
tance, had no friends in Cambridge or Boston from whom to 
expect assistance. Their homes were in New York State, Ohio, 
Indiana, and Illinois. 

''The work secured through your office was as follows: 1903-04. 
Clerical work in the Publication Office; work in classifying Social 
Ethics Library. 1904-05. Further work of the same sort; small 
amount of tutoring. 1905-06. Tutoring and supervision of 
dropped Freshmen; at one time I was supervising five Freshmen, 
besides doing other tutoring. 1906-07. Tutored during the 
summer; in the fall began work with a Freshman for whom I was 
entirely responsible. Besides this, I did supervising and tutor- 
ing. Up to Midyears, 1907, I had earned $875." In this case 
it should be borne in mind that the student won scholarships 
which brought him in over $1000. 

Another says: ''My work received through the Appointments 
Office . began with distributing literature, washing windows, 



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attending furnaces, beating rugs and carpets, shovelling snow, 
teaching a boys' club, scene-shifting, always approaching a 
more desirable nature, until I became a University Guide. This 
year I am again on the guide force, and have a library to care 
for during certain hours." 

Still another: "1 came to Harvard last year from a Western 
city hoping to be able to earn my expenses soon after entering, 
although I was not acquainted with anybody in the vicinity of 
Cambridge. About two months after I entered, I secured profit- 
able and permanent employment through the Appointments 
Office. I am now one of the two students who are employed by 
the Old South Association as janitors of the Old South Meeting- 
House, Boston. We work together about two hours every 
morning, getting the building ready to open. In addition to the 
janitor work, one of us must be in the building from 2.30 p.m. 
every day to 9.30 a.m. the next. We have a well-furnished 
student's room in the building. Our income from this work is 
sufficient to meet our necessary expenses. My experience at 
Harvard leads me to believe that it is not at all difficult for a 
Harvard student to earn his expenses while in college." 

And a fourth: ''During my Freshman year I did not seek work, 
thus all the jobs I mention were obtained practically in three 
years. I have also had offered me many opportunities for work 
through the Appointments Office which I could not accept be- 
cause of lack of time. Assisting the Recorder at registration 
time. Monitorships. Night clerkship in a summer hotel during 
the season of 1905. Ushership at openings of Mrs. Gardner's 
Fenway residence. Tutorship from Mr. Nolen through whom 
I have secured much profitable work. Tutoring a candidate for 
entrance to Harvard College for two weeks during the summer 
of 1906. Supervising a Freshman on probation for one month. 
Statistical work for business men in Boston and a Harvard 
Professor. The income of all of this work has reached $400." 

Examples of the above sort might be given indefinitely. Nor 
is this surprising, since on work, both in term-time and summer, 
many students depend entirely for the completion of their course. 
For this and other reasons, therefore, it is satisfactory to note 
that the number of temporary jobs secured either directly or 
indirectly through the Office is steadily increasing. For the 
year 1904-05 (October 1 to September 30) there were 873. and 
for the year 1905-06, 1085 of such jobs. For the year 1906-07, 
the temporary jobs, 1425 in number, were divided as follows; 



2Q 



Administrative 3 

Athletic Coaches 3 

Attendants 5 

Boatman . . , 1 

Bookkeepers 4 

Canvassers 16 

Caretakers of Houses 3 

Chauffeur 1 

Choremen 39 

Clerks 168 

Clock Repairer 1 

Collectors 9 

Companions 5 

Computers 2 

Correctors (Themes, Examina- 
tion Books) ........ 7 

Dramatic Club (Scene Shifters, 

Chair Movers, etc) 16 

Draughtsmen 13 

Errands (Messengers) 13 

Expressmen 2 

Farm Hands 3 

Furnace Tenders ....... 9 

Gardeners 4 

Geology Expert 1 

Guides 46 

Hotel Help ......... 6 

Janitors 3 

Lecturers 2 

Legal Assistant 1 

Library (Cataloguing) 2 

Literary Work 2 

Marketman 1 

Meter Readers 48 

Monitors 17 

Museum (Cleaning Specimens) . 2 

Museum Guards 12 



Musicians 10 

Newspaper Correspondents ... 5 

Night School Teachers .... 4 

Painter 1 

Policeman 1 

Printer 1 

Proctors 69 

Proof-readers 2 

Railway (Motormen and Con- 
ductors) 8 

Readers 5 

Research Workers 2 

Rooms for Services 4 

Secretaries 8 

Settlement Workers 9 

Snow Shovellers 6 

Solicitors 16 

Statisticians . 99 

Stenographers 35 

Store Clerks 31 

Substitutes for Schools .... 5 
Summer Camps (Directors, Coun- 
cillors, Tutors) 4 

Summer School Teachers ... 7 

Supervisors of Study 68 

Surveyor 1 

Teaching Assistant (College or 

Institute) r . . 5 

Ticket Takers 282 

Timekeeper 1 

Translators 8 

Tutors and Companions .... 46 
Tutors (Special Subjects) . . .189 

Typewriters 20 

Usher 1 

Waiters 2 

Total .1425 



The Office cannot help persons in finding work until they have 
become members of the University, and are within reach. A 
student wishing work should register at the Appointments Office, 
9 University Hall, as soon as he comes to Cambridge. No charge 
is made for services. All correspondence should be addressed to 
the Secretary for Appointments, 9 University Hall, Cambridge. 



LETTERS 



The letters printed below were written by students in response 
to a request that they give others the benefit of their experience by 
relating in detail what their expenses have been and how they have 
met them. The students to whom this request was made were 
known at the College Office as earnest, serious men and good schol- 
ars. Though no attempt was made to secure letters from men who 
came to Harvard from different parts of the country, an examination 
of the College records showed that the writers came from widety 
separated parts of the country. Among the states represented are 
Massachusetts, Ohio, Utah, Dakota, New York, Pennsylvania, Mis- 
souri, Washington, New Hampshire, Minnesota, Illinois, Vermont, 
Rhode Island, and Wisconsin. It is also noteworthy that a large 
majority of them came from public schools. The letters are 
arranged in no particular order, except that those of undergraduates 
precede those of graduate students. 

The writers do not all agree as to expenses or as to advice to 
students about to enter, but the variety of experience they show 
will be in itself instructive. The young man who is coming to 
Harvard, and who seeks advice from this pamphlet, must bear in 
mind that in the matter of expense, as in all others, the problem 
before him is a problem of Harvard and himself as an individual. 
Two special cautions and one general caution should be remembered 
by readers of the letters. Men entering a Graduate School should 
remember that the high standard of work exacted from candidates 
for the higher degrees prevents students from giving much time to 
earning money for their support. Similarly, students who expect to 
engage chiefly in scientific studies should remember that laboratory 
fees will Increase their tuition fees considerably, and that laboratory 
work is time-consuming and will leave but little time for outside work. 
In general, the reader should remember that the writers of these let- 
ters were excellent scholars and men of more than common ability, 
courage, and endurance. Had they been commonplace men they 
would not have succeeded. This pamphlet has been prepared, not 



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we hare collected the iiffures of thTln . '" ^^"'''^ expen^tures, 

$400 ; three between f «0 and «^an f ?^'"'' *°'' '^ ^''"'•- «"« «P«"t 

between ,600 anTS^TSen X ^So 'T '^'^f f ''' ^ *'"- 
and $900 (one payino- Uro-e doctor hill V ^ ' ^""^ ^^'^eeu $800 

in the Scientitic S^ool ™r«,To ^ ' ^""^ ""' "^"^ ^^^^O' O"" «>*'' 
on Squam Lake/^t Hrp?h rVhre7at:'J;f in sun>n.er camp 

ships amo^;;;" v$uTo"'JL7-T'; *""'"'" '^''^^ ^'^^-^^^'i ^«i>°i-r- 

I uiit.xi^ Lo JIM 14:0, the highest man earnino- <kf\f)f) 

men report earnings from work in term-time of TiT^^"^ ?'. 

1899, clerkino- ^50- iQon ,'. ^ ^"^^ ""^ ^^^^1' ^^ided as follows : 

, cij^iig, ^ou, lyoo, msurance solicitiiip- «9nn. lom • 

soliciting, $350; 1902, singino- in chaDel^^o T '.n. ' "^^^^^^^ 

work for Cambrido-e Gas Co° ^^^n T i ' o '^^' ^^OS-Jmie, 1903, 
<lfifi«. foo 1.- " \^ ^^^ ^^•' ^150; teaching Smiday School 1909 nq 
f68, teaching Smidaj School, 1903-04 ««« t^o.i.- ^'^''^^^ 1902-03, 
190S-04 «}inn. + ^- • ^ ' *^^' teaching evenino- school 

lyurf U4, $100; tutoring for one year, $275 ° scnooi, 

' ' Reports from mpn n = + « +i, n . 

of $895, ranging from $25 tol^o. «l ^^^^^ations show earnings 

« « irom ^20 to $225 above expenses in a single vacation!" 

My dear Mr. : 

expenses. They'^rasliw:'^" "^" ' '^^' =" ^-^''«' — ' «* 
Room . . 

Tuition ..!*.'.!*.'.; *-00 • 

Books and stationery ....** 150.00 

Postage 39.16 

Laundry 2-86 

Board .....'.'.* 4-82 

Sundries, such as d;thing;carfar;,lo;ker:fe*es;e*tc: ! '43 00 

Total .... — — ^ 

421.03 



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From September 11, 1901, to June 25, 1902, — forty-one weeks. My 
room rent included heat, light, furniture, and care. My laundry expenses 
were low, as you will notice, because my landlady was so kind as to put 
my washing in with that of her household ; she charged very little. I ate 
at no fixed place, but used various restaurants, and particularly those 
boarding-houses where motor-men and conductors take their meals ; for 
there one can often get a good substantial dinner for a very reasonable 
price. My custom was to take one hearty meal (at noon) during the day, 
and eat a light breakfast and supper. My board averaged $2.46 per 
week. I think it a serious error for a growing boy to limit himself that 
way, and am convinced that I hurt myself by too great economy during 
the first half-year. Had I been wise, I would have boarded at Randall 
Hall ; but it was really a full year before I became used to College. A 
Price Greenleaf Aid of $200 was awarded me. I did no outside work. 

DurinD- the summer I was clerk at a hotel in Canada. For this work 
I received my room and excellent board, and other expenses, such as 
laundry and railroad fare. I accepted the position on the express con- 
dition that I was to have little to do and a great deal of time to myself, as 
I was in pretty bad shape physically. 

Unfortunately, I have lost the record of expenses during my Sophomore 
year. If I remember rightly they amounted to about $450. I boarded, 
as in my first year, but not so economically. I did some tutoring. A 
scholarship of $250 was awarded me, and I borrowed $40 from the Loan 
Fund. 

My physical condition at the end of the year was such that I had to go 
home. Hence, during the summer I stayed in the country, but did not 
try to make any money. 

Following is an account of expenses during my Junior year : — 

Room $80.00 

Tuition 150.00 

Board 127.94 

Laundry 15.20 

Books and stationery 15.00 

Sundries, such as postage, carfare, clothing, fees, etc. 125.82 

Total 513.96 

September 23, 1903, to June 18, 1904, — thirty-eight weeks. 

I boarded at Memorial during this year, as the new plan introduced 
there makes it possible to live very well for from $3.10 to $3.50 per week. 
Liasmuch as many of the books required in my courses were reserved in 
the reading-rooms of the various libraries, my expenses in this dkection 
were smaller than usual. I earned about $40 tutoring and $30 by work- 
ing for the Athletic Association ; a scholarship of $300 was awarded me 
and I won $250 in prizes. 

During the summer I worked on the cars as conductor and cleared $120. 
I got a suite of rooms free during this period in a private dormitory ; my 



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Very truly yours, ^ 



Dear Mr. 



I am very g 



lad to tell you anj-thing tliat may l.e useful in 
• A ononilino- monev smee 1 nave 



.periences in earning and spending money 



the way of my ^^^ ^bleVor myl-reslnn;^. year is pretty nearly aceu- 
come to College. The toble lor S calculate on my 

for my Sophomore T-r. I — do more ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^ __ 



itn^^uTi tHn^-the figures I gi.e come fairly near 

Freshman Year 
Expenses 

.... $100 

.... 20 

.... 150 

..... 175 

^ .... 155 

600 



Room 

Heat and light . . 

Tuition 

Eood 

Clothes, books, etc. 



Receipts 

Price Greenleaf 

Summer of 1902 

Prom my family 

Earned in College fii 

600 



$50 

35 

300 



The two hundred and fi^een dollars which I made during the College 
year I earned in the following ways : - 

. . $25 
Taking a Settlement Library * ... 25 

u a Boys' Club * jgg 

" care of boys in Boston . —- 

215 



Sophomore 



Year 



Expenses 



Receipts 



Tuition 

Heat and light . . 
Room (given me) 

Pood 

Clothes, books, etc. 

Club 



35 

200 
215 
100 

700 



College Pund 

Clerical work 

Taking care of boys in Boston 



100 
300 



Prom my 
Summer of 1903 
Deficit 



family . ^^ 



100 
100 

700 



The deficit of one hundred dollars I made up in the course of the 

summer of 1904. ,,_„ . ,^^^ „ear, I should like to say that it is 

In comiection w.th the Freslumn ye ^^^ 

almost unwise for a i^-^^^^^^ ^t i^ is desirable to be able to get 

T''^:Z:f:::^^l^ra..^ outside worlc, or. better still, without 
through the first ye^w ^^^^^^ ^^j ^.^ energy in getting mto the 

:;fr: JcamtrSe 1 e. and in getting a good hold on his work, especially 



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this last, for by getting good marks he is eligible for scholarships with 
which to help pay his next year's expenses ; he will also thus qualify for 
tutoring, which is very profitable. 

It is a question of months before a fellow really gets settled here, and if 
he has the weight of earning money on his shoulders, he finds it exceed- 
ingly diflS.cult to do himself justice. The outside work which a Freshman 
can do is hard and poorly paid. For four months I used to leave Cam- 
bridge at three o'clock every Sunday afternoon, and take charge of a slum 
library in Boston, getting back here at about ten. Each time I did this I 
got $1.50, and felt proud that I was earning money, but I realize now that 
it was not worth while, that my time would have been much better spent 
in studying or even in resting. 

Hoping that this may be of some slight service, I remain, 

Very truly yours, 



Dear Mr. : — 

In response to your letter of November 14th, T try to 
present below an approximately accurate account of my College expenses. 
The amounts are only approximate, as I have no exact figures at hand. 
Since I lived at home during my Freshman year, my case is not a typical 
one, and I have not given expenses for that year. 

In talking with fellows about the expenses of College life I have found 
it of gTeat help to divide tliem into two classes : (1) strictly College ex- 
penses, such as tuition, board, room, books, furniture, and the like ; (2) 
what I term general or living expenses, such as anyone would have living 
at home and not paying board. 

While such division is of course only rough, it seems to me to have a 
rational basis. Only the first group consists of what can properly be 
called College expenses. I give the approximate figures for last year, 
and my estimate for the present year : — 

1903-04 1904-05 

Tuition $150.00 Tuition $150.00 

Rent of room in private house, Infirmary fee 4.00 

including fuel and light . . 80.00 Room (one-half) 62.50 

Board at Randall Hall (thirty- Fuel and light (estimate) . . 7.50 

four weeks at $3.50) . . . 119.00 Board at Randall Hall . . . 120.00 

Books and stationery .... 6.00 Books and stationery .... 10.00 

Clothing . . . . : 35.00 Clothing 35.00 

Incidentals (about) 25.00 Incidentals 25.00 

Total 415.00 Total 414.00 

Of my furniture I purchased at the beginning of my Freshman year an 
amount costing about $15. The rest I have taken from home. Regarding 
my expenditure for books, I should state that it has been, I think, rather 
below the average, as I have used several books belonging to a room-mate 



who look the courses in which they are required the year before I took 
them. 

During the long vacation I have done newspaper work, library work, 
and some tutoring, earning in that way about $35 each summer. Until 
this year I have not attempted to do any work during the College term. 
This year, however, I have every prospect of receiving about $75 from 
tutoring. I might add that during the foot-ball season of 1903 I planned a 
business venture which resulted in an absolute loss instead of in receipts 
of $50, as I expected. 

That any student can live comfortably at Harvard on somewhat less 

than $400 per year I feel certain. And a fair amount of industry would, in 

general, gain a scholarship which would provide for nearly half of this 

sum. 

Very sincerely. 



Dear Sir : — 

I think I may say that Harvard is the " cheapest" place 
for a boy to go to if he is obliged to pay his way, especially if he has 
ability to gain scholarships. Scholarships and aids have enabled me to 
begin and continue my College course. During my Freshman year I 
received $150 of the Price Greenleaf Aid, and in my Sophomore year I 
held a Burr Scholarship of $200. 

My accounts I have divided somewhat arbitrarily, and have kept no 
account of my travelling expenses. During my Freshman year I lived at 

home, in , and consequently my only College expenses were for books, 

carfare, and tuition. My Price Greenleaf Aid cancelled my tuition ; of 
my carfare I have no record ; and my books cost me perhaps $18, which 
was met, of course, with no great difficulty. 

Last year my home was in Vermont, and so I have since been obliged to 
meet the expense of living here. The following account is accurate for 
the second year : — 

Second Year 

Tuition . . , $150.00 

Laboratory fee 10.00 

Room (one-half) 37.50 

Light (one-half) 1.55 

Fuel (one-half) 10.69 

Board (Randall) 108.64 

Furniture 21.01 

Books and stationery 17.10 

Clothing and laundry 23.34 

Miscellaneous 37.79 

417.62 
Scholarship 200.00 

217.62 



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I shared my room with a clay room-mate, — one who lived at home, but 
who used this room as a study between recitation hours. 

This year I expect my expenses wall be substantially the same, and that 
I shall receive a scholarship large enough to pay my term-bills and enable 
me to repay the money I have had to hire to pay the $90 advance tuition 
fee. Last year, of the $217.62 which was not paid by my scholarship, I 
received about half from home, as I needed it, and the rest was borrowed 
for me. 

I have not been able to earn any money until this year. There are 
many opportunities for earning money, but there are many waiting for 
these opportunities. This year I am a waiter at Randall Hall. This is 
one of the most practicable ways of earning money here. 

I trust this may be helpful in answering inquiries ; and I should be glad 
to answer any questions in regard to expenses here which may be asked 
by those who do not find their queries answered by this book. 

Yours sincerely. 



Dear Sir : — 

Your request for an account of my expenses last year and 

the way in which they were met Avas duly received, and I gladly give you 
the desired information if in any way it may be helpful to others in similar 
circumstances. 

The figures below I have in nearly all cases given in round numbers, 
although the exact figures differed only by a few cents. In cases when 
the expense was equally shared by my room-mate I have noted it. The 
individual items I have classified as follows : 1st, for books and stationery, 
including everything pertaining directly to the work of six courses ; 2d, 
for furniture ; 3d, for fuel and light ; 4th, for board at the Randall Hall 
Association ; 5th, for room rent, and lastly for incidentals. In this class I 
have placed articles too numerous to be individually noted, but including 
clothes, carfares, etc. The account is as follows : — 

Tuition $150.00 

Furniture (half) 20.00 

Books 25.00 

Fuel and light (half) 20.00 

Board 62.13 

Room 75.00 

Incidentals 70.00 

422.13 

Of this amount the tuition was met by an award of Price Greenleaf Aid 
from the University of $150. The number of courses which I carried, and 
my physical condition made it impossible for me to earn anything during 
term-time. The most perfect accord exists, however, between my parents 
and myself, and what little aid they could bestow was ungrudgingly given. 
The remainder of the amount was met from outside sources. 



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During the year I took absolutely no part in athletics, attended only 
the best concerts or plays, and that rarely. My laundry was expressed 
home at a cost of fifty cents every two weeks. I mention these things as 
they would materially affect one's expenses. The conditions are, of course, 
largely peculiar to myself, but I hope I may have given some help to one 
seeking to learn the cost of a jesir — and that the first year — at College. 

I remain, 

Yery truly yours, 



My dear Mr. 



I am very glad that you are getting out a pamphlet on 
College expenses, and shall be pleased to tell you what my expenses have 
been since entering Harvard. I have kept careful account of all the 
money I have spent, and the following items are the exact figures : — 



First Year 



Expenses 

Tuition $150.00 

Laboratory 13.46 

Eoom (one-half) 60.00 

Board 136.50 

Books and stationery .... 19.45 

Furniture 9-90 

Washing and laundry .... 11.75 

Carfare 12.00 

Benevolences 6.94 

Athletics, theatres, concerts, 

etc 5.95 

Miscellaneous sundries . . . 18.65 

444.60 



Receipts 

Price Greenleaf Aid .... $150.00 
Received from home .... 207.10 
Earned the summer before 

entering 50.00 

Work Christmas Vacation . . 22.50 
Tutoring 15.00 

444.60 



Second Year 



Expenses 

Tuition $150.00 

Laboratory 10.00 

Board 120.48 



Room 

Books and stationery . . 

Coal and wood 

Furniture 

Washing and laundry . . 

Carfare 

Benevolences 

Athletics and locker fee . 

Oil 

Theatre, concerts, etc. . 



70.00 

24.10 

17.00 

18.95 

19.62 

10.35 

5.75 

8.50 

2.50 

4.85 



Receipts 

Scholarship $150.00 

Received from home .... 139.88 
Work during summer . . . 56.00 
From my own bank account . 100.00 
Work during Christmas 

Vacation 13.62 

Tutoring 25.00 

484.50 



Miscellaneous 22.40 



484.50 



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The first year I roomed and boarded in a private house, where the rooms 
were furnished and heated, consequently I had very little to spend on 
furniture, and none on fuel. Last year I boarded at Kandall Dining Hall, 
and roomed in a College dormitory. The extra expense of furniture and 
fuel made my living expenses higher, but this year, with no furniture to 
buy, I expect them to be about the same as the first year. 

I have not included the item of clothing, which depends in a great 
measure on the tastes of the individual, and how much you have to start 
in with. 

This year I have already made considerable money in the College Office 
and in tutoring. With my scholarship and other work in sight I expect to 
about cover all my expenses. My advice is : come provided for the first 
year, and an energetic boy can always find work enough to do to help him 
through the rest of his College course. 

Yours sincerely, 



Dear Sib: — 

I shall be glad to tell you as nearly as possible how I met 
my expenses during my College course. 

When I entered Harvard I had $72, which I saved from working the 

previous summer. I found a room on Street, which, with heat, 

furnishings, and light, cost me $2 per week. During the summer I had 
written to the headwaiter of Randall Hall and received a fairly favorable 
reply, but no promise of work. As soon as he entered his duties I inter- 
viewed him and convinced him I was in need of work to stay in College. 
My average earnings were $2.75 per week at the Dining Hall. Besides 
this I earned about $15 by ticket taking and selling blank note cards. As 
far as I can look up I shall give a very near approximation of my expenses. 

First Year 
Expenses Receipts 

Tuition $150 Waiter $119 

Board 95 Summer work 72 

Room 76 291 

Books 5 Balance deficit 180 



Laboratory fee 10 

Washing and laundry 8 i received a scholarship for $150, 

Clothes 22 ^ * ' 



Incidentals 5 

371 



371 
which nearly cleared the deficit. 



Very nearly all of my books were ones borrowed by me ; some of my 
washing I did myself, and frequently cooked my own breakfast. This first 
year, however, was the most expensive. 

I still retained my waiter's position in my second year, but changed my 
room to Divinity Hall. My expenses were as follows : — 



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Second Year 



Expenses 

Tuition $150.00 

Board 105.00 

Koom 50.00 

Loan Furniture 7.50 

Laboratory fees 17.00 

Laundry 8.00 

Clothes 12.00 

Fares, etc 7.00 

356.50 



Receipts 

Waiter $133.00 

Summer surplus 60.00 

Beneficiary Aid 60.00 

Taking tickets 24.00 

Tutoring 6.00 

283.00 
Deficit 73.50 

356.50 



Thus, in my second year, I came out about $73 behind, but as in the year 
before and in all years the leaving of the payment of the last term-bill 
until the following fall gives me a chance to make up this deficit. 

The third year resulted still better. This year I was elected Secretary 

and Treasurer of , which position paid me $100 yearly. I still 

worked in the hall as a slide man (advanced two places over the waiter's 
position). I also received monitorships in some of the courses. 



Expenses 

Tuition $150.00 

Board 93.00 

Room 50.00 

Loan Furniture . ...... 5.00 

Laboratory 25.50 

Laundry 8.00 

Clothes 23.00 

Fares, etc. . 10.00 

364.50 



Third Year 

Receipts 

Secretary $100.00 

Work at Dining Hall .... 120.00 

Summer surplus 41.00 

Taking tickets 15.00 

Monitor 9.00 

Beneficiary Aid 63.00 



348.00 
Deficit 16.50 



364.50 



This year, my fourth year, started rather hard because of the advance of 
$90 on the term-bill. By summer surplus I have meant to give that part 
of my summer earnings w^hich I had left to start upon for the next year. 
The Beneficiary Aid received came in February, when the Mid-year bills 
were due. Inasmuch as all term-bills have to be paid before graduation 
it will probably be necessary for me to borrow some money to advance my 
earnings this next summer. I shall apply to the Loan Fund for this 
money. 

Now, in regard to work, I find that the best way to find work is to get in 
with such a crowd of self-supporting students as the waiters at the Dining 
Hall and let them " put you onto things," for very few waiters go very 
long without fiLuding better employment. I have always found the best 
smnmer work in hotels, although this very last summer was the first in 
which I could clear over $150. There are scores of things here a fellow 
can do to earn money, and as far as the College Office is concerned no 
worthy student need feel timid about confiding his circumstances or apply- 
ing for positions. 

Most sincerely yours, 



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Deab Sir : — 

My expenses during my first two years in Harvard were 
not as low as they might have been had it been necessary for me to spend 
the least possible amount, still I took care to keep them down to what I 
thought I ought to spend in order to get the best results from my College 
course, and yet not go beyond my means. The expenses of my Freshman 
year were as follows : — 

1902-03 

Tuition $150 00 

Laboratory fee 10.00 

Room 65.00 

Furniture 59.08 

Fees (Union, Athletic Association, etc.) 16.35 

Board (six weeks at Memorial, remainder at Eandall) 120.57 

Books, stationery, etc 37.64 

Fuel, light, etc 9.43 

Laundry and washing 6.17 

Athletics 9.15 

Sundries 37.07 

520.46 

This total I might have cut down considerably if I had had a room-mate. 
I roomed in a College dormitory, so I had to buy all my furniture, which, 
however, I expect will last me through my College course. I had earned 
almost enough before entering College, hj carrying papers and other work, 
to pay my way through for that year. I had hoped to be able to earn 
something during the College year, but I found that I had not time to do 
justice to my studies, get proper exercise, and make money too. Price 
Greenleaf Aid was granted me to the amomit of $150 for that year. 

The expenses of my Sophomore year were much lower, because I had a 
room-mate and needed no new furniture. They were as follows : — 

1903-04 

Tuition $150.00 

Board (Memorial Hall) 137.11 

Room 35.00 

Fuel, light, etc 6.15 

Laundry and Avashing 7.62 

Books, stationery, etc 11.13 

Fees for Union and Athletic Association 15.00 

Athletics . . . . 4.00 

Sundries 40.15 

406.16 

To pay for my second yearns expenses I had a scholarship for $150, and 
earned over $100 working in a warehouse during the summer of my 
Freshman year, though part of that sum had to go to pay my first year's 
expenses. Last summer I earned over $100 working on a gas pipe line. 



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This year also I earned nothing during my College year, as I felt that I 
would overtax myself if I tried to keep up a grade in my studies suffi- 
ciently high to get a scholarship, take the active part in athletics w^hich I 
believe every one should take, provided he can give the time to it, and also 
do outside work. I knew that I could draw on funds at home to a small 
extent, so that I was not reduced to such straits as some are. My clothes 
were all provided for me with the exception of about $10 each year. That 
$10 is included in the sundries. I expect my expenses for my Junior year 
will be as low as those of my Sophomore year, but shall have to borrow 
enough from home to make up the deficiency left after I receive my 

scholarship money. 

Very truly yours, 



Dear Sir: — 

I entered College as a Freshman last year from 

Academy. From my standing there I had previously been assigned Price 
Greenleaf Aid to the amount of my tuition. My other expenses were : 
Board at Randall Hall, $120; room rent, $50; incidental expenses, $50. 
To meet these expenses I had upon entering $150, and I earned through- 
out the year $75. 

In the early part of the year I earned something by attending a furnace,, 
and a very little by tutoring. I earned most, however, by working 
Saturdays during the afternoon and evening in a clothing store in Boston. 
Many of the larger stores there, especially grocery stores, will hire stu- 
dents to work Saturdays as extra help. A representative of at least one 
grocery store came to the College last winter to seek such help among the 
students. For working Saturday afternoon and evening students are paid 
from $1.50 to $2.50. I chose the clothing store because I had had 
experience in that business. 

Yours respectfully, 



Dear Sir: — 

I am unable to answer your letter of November 14:th with 
absolute accuracy, as I have not kept a detailed account of my expenses. 
The following table is, however, a liberal approximation for last year : — 

Tuition $150 

Board (Randall Hall) 110 

Room 60 

Books and general expenses • • • 60 

380 

I earned tliis money and a small balance in a three years' interval 
between High School and College by working, first, in a lumber mill ; 



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second, in a lumber office ; third, for the U. S. Geolo^cal Survey ; fourth, 
for the Northern Pacific Railway Engineering Department. During the 
past summer I was able to make but little more than expenses by working 
on a farm, but I improved my physical condition. 

As for young men coming to Harvard, I have only this advice to offer — 
that in my opinion they should earn their ow^n way, because the experience 
will be valuable to them after leaving College, and, what is much more 
important, such a course will strengthen their moral fibre, as opposed to 
the demoralizing pensioning system, whether of College or of parents. 
I think that it is best to earn the money, if possible, before coming to 
College, for then the student can devote himself to purely College work, 
and perhaps lessen his total expenses by finishing in three years. 

Sincerely, 



Dear Mr. : — 

Before entering College I had saved up about eighty dollars. 
When I entered, a year ago this fall, I had spent about twenty of it for 
clothes. During the College year I borrowed about one hundred and 
fifteen dollars, and received ten dollars as a Cliristmas present. Besides 
this I had two hundred dollars from the Price Greenleaf Fund, which 
reduced my term-bills to about fiity-eight dollars each. I borrow^ed 
thirty-five dollars more this fall to aid in pajdng the second term-bill. 
Thus my total expenses for the College year, as near as I can estimate 
them, were about four hundred and fifteen dollars, of which I borrowed 
about one hundred and forty-five. 

The drawing instruments for Architecture la and 2a, and for Fine 
Arts 1, cost me over twenty dollars, but my expenses for books were not 
large. My board at Randall Hall averaged about two dollars and seventy- 
five cents a week, but I was at home sick for about a month, which 
lowered the total board-bill considerably. This last summer I worked on 
a farm and saved up about sixty dollars. Farming is not very profitable, 
but the health acquired is of great practical value during the College year. 

So far this year I have borrowed ninety dollars to meet the tuition fee 
bill of October tenth, besides the thirty-five dollars I mentioned before, 
due from last year. I am earning from three to five dollars a week at 
Randall Hall. I tried reading gas-meters for the Cambridge Gas Light 
Company to see how it compared with the w^ork at Randall . I found that 
the pay averaged about the same, but that reading meters was harder and 
more disagreeable than carrying trays at Randall Hall. The work at 
Randall Hall frequently leads to good positions at summer hotels. 

Yours sincerely, 



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Dear Sir : — 

In regard to my last year's expenses, they were in all 
$397.81, with the exception of clothing and laundry, which was probably 
between $35 and $40. In detail they are as follows : — 

Koom (one-half, steam heated) $75.00 

Tuition 150.00 

Board (Randall Hall) 84.00 

Books 12.55 

Stationery 6.59 

Carfare 11.23 

Sundries 43.88 

My board might have been slightly reduced without danger to health. 
Cost of books could not easily be less, for they were mostly second-hand. 
I find that when term-bills, books, stationery, carfare, and all unnecessary 
expenses have been taken out, there remains about $43 spent on furnishing 
the room, and a thousand and one other things. All my furniture last 
year I hired at $5 for the whole year. 

I have not worked to earn money during the vacations or term-time, but 

last summer I did work worth about $70 or $80 at $1 a day on my father's 

farm. For money I have to depend on him and on the prospect of a 

scholarship. 

Respectfully yours. 



My dear Mr. 



I shall be glad to furnish you with any information that I 
have gained from my year's experience in living at Harvard. Fortunately, 
I have kept careful account of my finances last year. Here are the figures 
as I summarized them last June : — 



Received 
Pulitzer Scholarship . . 
A kind aunt ..... 
Other sources 



Expended 

$250 Tuition $150 

100 Board at Randall 78 

68 Room (one-half) 75 

418 Books and stationery 21 

Washing 8 

Fees and dues 12 

Recreation 11 

Travelling expenses 32 

Miscellaneous 24 

411 



The $68 marked "Other sources" consisted chiefly of money I had 
saved before entering College. None of it, so far as I can now recall, 
was earned during the College term last year. I did no work outside, 
because I wished to devote all the time possible to my courses, -with a 
view to winning a scholarship this year. 



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My board at Randall was rather low, as the figures indicate. I was 
able to keep it down to an average of two dollars a week by living on two 
meals a day throughout the year. I would not advise a man to economize 
on his eating except as a last resort, and then not unless he is sure of 
himself. I did not suffer any serious hardship (indeed, my health was 
consistently good) , but I could not help feeling that I was practising a 
rather dangerous economy. Living at Randall is not expensive, anyway. 
I have found that the average fellow can get all he wants to eat for three 
dollars a week. 

I paid rather more for my room than was absolutely necessary, but I 
found that the comfort and convenience of the somewhat more expensive 
room more than made up for the difference in price. 

My book account was not very high, in the first place because my room- 
mate allowed me the use of his books in the courses which he had taken 
the year before, also because I patronized the second-hand store before all 
the copies of the desired books were gone. 

Of the other expenses probably those which I have labelled ' ' Recrea- 
tions " were the hardest to manage. Here I had to practise real economy, 
though without any serious deprivation. I started out with the firm 
conviction that a man must have some pleasure. The problem was to get 
the best results possible with a very small outlay. The very first thing I 
did was to spend five dollars for an H. A. A. ticket. I found it an excel- 
lent investment. Two more dollars went for a ticket to the Yale game ; 
and the rest of the money here credited to * ' Recreations " paid my way 
into the theatre several times. I found this sufficient outside amusement 
to keep me from " going stale."" 

For many fellows the item of travelling expenses could be considerably 
decreased. I live in New York, and went home both at Christmas and 
during the Spring Recess. 

I found various incidental expenses bothersome. A few little purchases 
here and there had a marvelous way of climbing up "to higher things." 

So much for last year. I am not living quite so close to the limit this 
year, but still with fairly strict economy. My expenses and income are 
both slightly augmented. I am undertaking a somewhat heavier task this 
year than last. I am carrying six and a half courses, taking care of the 
heating apparatus of a large students' house, and doing a little tutoring 
besides. I cannot tell whether my finances \^dll come out as well this 
year as they did last, but at any rate I do not expect to spend any more 
than $500 or $550. 

I cannot give you any information about ways of earning money — at 
least not directly from my own experience. I am doing some outside 
work this year, but last year tended strictly to my work in courses. My 
experience this year seems to indicate that it is best to have no outside 
occupation, if possible. It is better to stint one's self and be able to give 
one's best efforts to College work than to have a divided allegiance. My 
experience, and that of others I know, shows that where such a divided 



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allesdance exists it is the Colleo:e work that suffers most. I have found 
that where a inan must do other work in order to pay his way, that some 
form of physical labor is the best. It provides a good foil for mental 
effort. 

I do not know whether I have told you anything in this letter or not. 
I realize that I have not been as brief as the matter demanded, but I 
thought it better to be too lengthy rather than too brief, so that you might 
pick out from all this chaff whatever facts were of use to you. If there is 
anything I have failed to make full enough or clear enough I shall be very 
glad to explain or expand, as the case may be. Don't hesitate to write me 
if I can help you out in any way. I have a great deal of kindly feeling 
for the work you have in hand, for I well remember how I pored over Mr. 
Bolles's pamphlet not so many years ago. I trust my experiences will be 
of some value to you. 

Sincerely yours, 



My deae Mr. : — 

To a boy who was doubtful of his ability to pay his way 
through College and had asked for the benefit of my experience I should 
probably write somewhat as follows. 

My expenses in my first year (1902-03) were these : — 

Tuition $150 Symphony and Grand Opera 

Room (including furniture, fuel, tickets T . . 12 

and service) 125 Theatre 7 

Meals 160 Harvard Union 10 

Books 15 Harvard Crimson 3 

Laundry 20 Gymnasium locker and suit . . 4 

Light and lamp 8 Dentist 8 

522 

About $25 or $30 should be added to cover unrecorded expenses (per- 
haps more — I have no means of telling) . 

Of the above expenses the tuition could not be lessened (except through 
some aid or scholarship) ; the room might be lessened, but only, I imagine, 
at a considerable loss of comfort; board, which cost me four dollars a 
week, might be reduced to three dollars and a half, but not profitably. The 
item books is the net result of the purchase of many second-hand books, 
and the resale of many books when I had done with them ; by the resale of 
more of such books it could be reduced. The item symphony and grand 
opera, and theatre, could by another person be dispensed with, and by me 
reduced; but the relaxation and subsequent stimulation which concerts 
and plays afforded me have been more than a recompense for the cost. 
I am firmly convinced that I can do far better and far steadier work in my 
College courses if I go occasionally to a good concert or play than if I 



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deny myself these pleasures. The whole matter, however, is a matter of 
temperament, and the new student may not crave music and drama as I do. 
My expenses in my second year (1903-04) were these : — 

Tuition S150.00 Laundry . $20.00 

Board 160.00 Symphony and Grand Opera . 12.00 

Kent of room (College dormi- Theatre 10.00 

tory) 115.00 Harvard Union 10.00 

Furniture (cost $60, should Harvard Crimson 3.00 

sell at second-hand for $30, Gymnasium locker 2.50 

leaving $10 cost to me for Dentist 10.00 

each of three years) . . . 10.00 Physician 20.00 

Coal 8.00 Membership in three clubs . 6.00 

X,ight 5.00 Rent of piano 33.00 

Books 20.00 594.50 

Again, about thirty dollars should be added for unrecorded expenses. 
In neither this list nor my first year s list did I take account of clothing or 
railroad expenses. The clothing I cannot well determine, and the railroad 
expenses will interest only men from (they amount to $70-75). 

Perhaps the only item in my second year's list that calls for explanation 
is the piano. I needed a piano in a music course, on the one hand, and, on 
the other, I needed it because I had played the instrument constantly for 
almost fifteen years, and my first year in College had taught me that there 
was nothing to be gained by depriving myself of it any longer. However, 
I made the rental of a piano contingent on the awarding of a scholarship 
to me. If I had not received the scholarship, I should not have rented the 
piano nor taken the music course. 

For my receipts in my first two years I can give few figures. Most of 
the money came from my parents, from my fathers earnings, and (chiefly) 
my mother s income on mherited property. In my second year (on the 
strength of my first year's work) I received a Bowditch Scholarship to the 
amount of $250. The rest, not a large amount, I earned myself. Of my 
own earnings almost all came from teaching school or tutoring. I substi- 
tuted in the High School on several occasions, for varying lengths of 

time. This last September I received the sum of $70 for teaching, the 
largest sum I had so far received. On another occasion I received about 
$35. The other amounts were smaller. Of my earnings by tutoring I 
can unfortunately give no definite figures — there were sums of from $2 
to $3 received sporadically through the year. I have never done nearly 
so much tutoring as I had opportimity to do because I felt that, so long as 
I could manage it, it would be cheaper to devote my time to my own study. 
If by doing no tutoring, and keeping up to my own standard of Avork, I could 
finish my course in three years, I should have gained much more than by 
tutoi-ing and even making enough money to carry me through another year. 
Of the two methods by which I have earned money, the first, teaching 
in a high school, is not likely to prove very practicable. There are always 



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more applicants for substitute work than there are opportunities, and prob- 
ably most students would find difB.culty in making opportunities, even 
if they are capable persons. I myself had the advantage of coming to 
know very intimately, while a student in the High School, the Director 

of Schools, who has never hesitated to offer me positions in subjects 

which I was qualified to teach. 

The other method, tutoring, should be preferable to any capable student, 
and I do not see why such a student might not, if he desired, make a con- 
siderable sum of money by tutoring. 

Perhaps I should have mentioned as a personal matter that the reason 
why I have said nothing of earning money during the summer is that I 
have never been at home, or indeed for a sufficiently long time ; the reason 
for this being that the precarious health of my mother has compelled me 
to follow her wherever her health dictated. 

Sincerely yours, 



My dear Sir : — 

Owing to a rush of work on a special report for Professor 

I have been unable to reply before this to your inquiry concerning 

my expenses while at College. My experience inclines me to the belief 
that a man can readily get along with $400 per year, including in the 
amount the $150 tuition charges. The figure in my case excludes cost 
of tobacco, as I do not smoke, and of theatre, as I seldom go to it. My 
mention of such matters as these may cause you to smile, but I assure you 
that to my certain knowledge these items are no inconsiderable expense to 
a great many of my acquaintances who are also working their way. 

My expenses have been steadily uniform, since. I have boarded at 
Randall during my whole course and have lodged at the same house during 
the four years. My Eandall Hall expenses have steadily averaged about 
$115, excluding the Christmas recess each year, and my lodging has cost 
me $50 each College year. " Lodging" includes lighting and such heat- 
ing as I get from the hall radiator, bed linen also, and the room is fur- 
nished. This $50 rate is, however, special to me, being $15 less than 
the usual charge for the room on account of a remote relationship to the 
landlady, which, though unknown to me, she insists exists. My washing 
has cost not over $20 per year, my books a similar sum, my clothes not over 
$20 per year either, and incidentals of new glasses and spectacles, shoes, 
toilet articles, and general incidentals, amounting to $25 to $30 in all, 

make up the balance. My trip home to at Christmas I cover by 

work in a store carrying bundles, or in an office, so that the expenses of 
the trip, say $12 to $15, do not need to be considered one way or the other. 

As to income : my main source has been a Price Greenleaf Aid in the 
Freshman year, and a scholarship) each year since. I began the first year 



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with $250 Price Greenleaf Aid, plus $150 loan, and in addition $50 saved 
out of my summer's work in a hotel pastry room. Of this total of $450, 
or perhaps a few dollars more, I saved out $50. My Sophomore jear 
began with this $50 plus $75 earned by work in the hotel (office tliis time) 
and a Bowditch Scholarship of $250. My Sophomore year was my closest 
one, and I had to do a bit of outside work, tutoring, which netted me only 
$18, and some office work during the Spring recess. A $300 Price Green- 
leaf Scholarship, plus $100 derived from office work in the hotel, carried 
me safely through the Junior year. I begin the Senior year with $150 
from the hotel work and the notification from you that I have been awarded 
a scholarship of at least $150. 

This is a bird's-eye view of the course through College of a man some- 
what older, perhaps, than the rim of the students, though not greatly so, 
as I am twenty-three years of age. I have done but little to distract my 
attention from my studies, for I assure you a hotel clerk sees quite enough 
of human nature in his three months of the summer season to cause him 
to feel the comfort of the quiet company of his books. I have had in view 
a definite purpose, that of teaching History and Civics, and without too 
much specialization have followed that purpose, making it my business 
while here to study closely during the six week days, but have not found it 
needful to do Sunday work, and have reserved that day for visits to a few 
friends in Boston. These visits and the singino; I have done at them have 
been my chief distraction from books, and on the whole I can say that my 
life here at $400 a year has been a pleasant one, and not too greatly 
burdened with anxiety for the next day. I have had an H. A. A. ticket 
during three years, but have at no time been a member of the Union, as 
my visits in town to the friends mentioned have filled my only leisure 
time. 

From this recital I leave you to draw your own conclusions, but in 
closing let me say that for the man who is willing the weight of Harvard's 
name need not frighten him into going to any less great or famous college. 

Sincerely yours, 



Mr DEAR Sir : — 

I am very sorry, but I fear that I cannot estimate my 
expenses for my first year nearly enough for that estimate to be of any 
service to you, since I neglected to keep any account. I have therefore 
concluded that it will be better to send only my expenses and the amount 
I have earned the past year — figures which I can come to a pretty close 
approximation of, I think. 



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Year Ending June, 1904 
Expenses Amount Earned 

Tuition 1150.00 Earned during summer vaca- 

Koom (one-half) 50.00 tion $150.59 

Board .* 79.59 Scholarship 150.00 

Gas 1.55 Writing deeds and copying 

Fuel 7.50 (approximately) 10.00 

Books and stationery (approxi- 310.59 

mately) 15.00 

Lockers (one-half in Gymna- 
sium and Locker Building) 2.25 

Eurniture 3.50 

Necessary incidentals .... 25.00 

334.39 

Under items of expense the sum paid for furniture should not be taken 
as an average yearly cost. The previous year I spent considerably more 
upon this item. In my estimation, however, one could get along at a 
yearly expense of ten dollars, upon the average. I have not included 
such items as clothing, for they seemed to me hardly such as one would 
classify under college expenses and because they may be more easily 
determined in one's own mind by his own tastes than by the expenses of 
another. 

I earned the one hundred and fifty dollars during the summer by manual 

labor — carpentering, — and I cannot recommend too highly such occupation 

for a portion of the summer weeks, both as a relaxation to the mind, and 

as an opportunity to study this phase of life. Had I not been iloing my 

College work in three years, and so not taking more than the required 

number of courses, I think I should have had time to have earned enouo-h 

to have covered all my expenses, as, for instance, by serving at Randall 

Hall. As it was, I preferred to devote the greater share of my spare 

hours to exercise. 

Sincerely yours, 



My dear Mr. : — 

I entered College in the fall of 1903 with about $200. 
Through a friend I secured work in the College Office during the Interval 
between entrance examinations and the opening of College, and about a 
week after College opened I began waiting on table at Randall Dining Hall, 
working from twelve to fourteen hours a week. I also obtained a position 
in a paid choir, but gave this up at the holiday period owing to illness. 
As a result of the Mid-year marks I was awarded $150 Price Greenleaf 
Aid, which served to pay my tuition for the year. Before the final exami- 
nations in Jiuie I had the good fortune to secure some tutoring, and this 
furnished me the means of leaving Cambridge in June entirely free from 
debt. 



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The folloTvdng is an af)proximate account of my expenses and receipts 
for the College year 1903-04 : — 



Expenses 

Tuition $150.00 

Eoom (College House) ... 42.50 

Tight and fuel 14.50 

Board (Randall Hall) .... 109.50 

Books 16.91 

Turniture 23.39 

Taundry 10.50 

Incidentals 103.70 

471.00 



Receipts 
Cash on hand at beginning of 



year 

Price Greenleaf Aid . 
"Work in College Office 
Work at Randall Hall 
Singing in choir . . . 
Tutoring 



$200.00 

150.00 

5.50 

75.00 

9.50 

31.00 

471.00 



In the above account the amount charged to ' ' incidentals " may seem 
large, but this includes all sorts of things of which I kept no account what- 
■ever, and also a balance of about five dollars in my pocket after reaching 
home in the summer. 

During' the summer I worked on a farm, and returned to Cambridg-e this 
iall with about $60. I hope to get a scholarship which will at least pay 
my tuition, am. working at Randall Hall again, singing in a choir, and 
liope to get some tutoring later. 

From my experience I find that work at waiting on table is not the best 

sort of work for a student.* He works inside, and is too tired to take 

exercise in the open air after working an hour and a half in the Hall. The 

work also totally unfits him to do any sort of mental task until he has had 

an hour's rest. If a man can get anything else to do, he should take it in 

preference to waiting on table. 

I am, sir, 

Very truly yours, 



Dear Mk. : — 

In answer to your inquiry regarding my College expenses 
and how I have met them, I give a statement below for the year which is 
approximately correct : — 

Board $120 

Room 50 

Tuition 150 

Books, instruments 50 

Incidentals 100 

470 

Of this amount, I paid $270 from money which I had earned previous 
to coming here. The balance, $200, was met by a scholarship. 

Thus far I have not secured any work which has materially aided me 
during the school year. I spent the summer, however, at , where I 



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earned about $170 in the Library of . The expense of returning 

home for the summer vacation is too great to be considered in my case. 

On the whole, I think the expense necessarily incurred during a year at 
Harvard need not exceed the expense of a year in a small Western school, 
in spite of the difference ^n tuition. The only additional item is the trav- 
elling expense. The advantages here in other respects are great enough 
to warrant this statement, I think, that no man of average ability need 
stay away from Harvard on account of the expense merely. But if coming 
some distance from home, and not having friends in the East who could 
help him in case of need, the prospective student should have about $500 
capital before entering. After one year here he would have no difS.culty 
in paying his way entirely by his own efforts. 

Yours very truly, 



Dear Sir: — 

My expenses during the last school year at Harvard were 
approximately as follows : — 

Tuition $150 

Room (one-half, furnished) 50 

Board 120 

Washing, books, etc. .- 40 

360. 

Of this amoimt I received $150 from the Price Greenleaf Fund. I lived 
comfortably, but I spent practically nothing for luxuries. 

During the summer I earned $52 a month at easy work secured for me 
by the Appointment Committee. Two of us are doing the same work now 
and attending school. We get a room free. Our wages pay the greater 
part of our expenses. 

I frequently have chances to earn a dollar or two without interfering 
with my studies. I have refused to do regular tutoring because my par- 
ents wish me to work with my hands and rest my brain in my leisure 
hours. 

I should not advise any man to come to Harvard unless he is able to 
pay his expenses without outside work the first year, and unless he is able 
to win a scholarship or pay his tuition each year with money earned before 
October first. In other words, after a fellow has been in school a year, he 
ought to be able to earn nearly all his expenses except his tuition. 

Very truly yours. 



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My dear Mil. : — 

I am very glad to furnish you with any information I can 
about my expenses. I entered College rather imexpectedly, and was en- 
abled to do so chiefly by the generous offer of a friend to make ujd to me 
what sums I might need at any one time, on very easy terms. So I was 
not under the immediate need of finding work here, and of earning my 
way as I went along — a course which I thought then, and still think, now 
that I have had a chance to observe its effect on other students, very com- 
mendable when absolutely necessary, but very disadvantageous to college 
studies and college life, when it can be avoided. On the other hand, the 
money thus advanced was a debt that must be paid some time, so that I 
felt the need of living economically and keeping it as small as possible. 

Thus my expenses for the past two years have been about equal. In 
all, they have footed up to within $470 or $480 per annum, excluding 
only clothes, and my board two days a week (Saturday noon to Monday 
noon) which I spent at home. The sum was made up somewhat in this 
way: — 

Tuition $150 

Room rent (no room-mate) 70 

Fuel (usually from a ton to a ton and a half of 

stove coal, and a small amount of wood) .... $10 to 12 

Light (gas) 2 

Board (at Memorial) 135 to 140 

Fares (to and from home) 12 

Laundry (linen only) , from 6 to 7 

Harvard Union 10 

Japan Club 2 

Religious Union 1 

Books (chiefly second-hand), about 20 to 25 

Sundries (including carfares, magazines, news- 
papers, stationery, theatres, games and enter- 
tainments, subscriptions, and occasional articles 

of clothing), about 50 

Total 468 to 481 

Regarding these I would say that the room rent might easily have been 
halved, by having a room-mate ; but I happened to know no one, and 
objected to a stranger. My board was perhaps larger than necessary, 
and at Randall might have been made from $30 to $40 less. The $12 for 
going home eveiy Sunday was somewhat of a luxury, but was compen- 
sated for b}'^ the saving in laundry, most of which was done at home. The 
expenses for societies and clubs was not necessary, but, I think, not un- 
reasonable. The expenditure for books was, chiefly owing to the kind of 
courses I took, rather small ; and sundries, of course, could have been 
made very much smaller or larger, according to any one's tastes or neces- 
sities. I could, I think, have reduced the total to $375 to $400 without 
actually hurting myself. 



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As to the credit side of the account, I have earned practically no money 
in College, except in scholarshif)s. My second year I received a First 
Group Scholarship of $250, more than half my expenses, and this year I 
have received a smaller one, the exact amount of which I do not yet know. 
I did not apply for Price Greenleaf Aid, and, as all my money was received 
through my parents, I cannot say anything about its source. 

I have tried, though not very strenuously, to get work here in Cambridge, 
— particularly in tutoring. In regard to this, I should say, after careful 
inquiry, that the chances to-day for a single undergraduate, who has not a 
large acquaintance among students who are always on the shady side of a 
D (which I did not have), were very poor indeed. The graduate and 
professional tutors have absorbed all the business. Other work I have not 
much sought, and cannot speak with any authority on the chances of 
obtaining it. 

This explains fairly well my position in respect to the financial side of 
college. I think that, on the whole, the course I have taken has been 
satisfactory to myself and my friends. 

Yours very truly, 



Dear Mr. 



I have not kept a strict account of my expenses and receipts 
since I have been in College, but I know pretty nearly how much it has 
cost me during my Freshman and Sophomore years. 

My term-bills for my Freshman year amounted to $330.12, itemized as 
follows : — 

Tuition $150.00 

Eoom rent 45.00 

Board 135.12 

330.12 

But besides these items there were many other necessary expenses, such as 
for clothes, laundry, car-fare, etc., which, at a low estimate, amounted to 
$100. My total expenses for the year, then, were not far from $430, and 
to keep them down to this figure I had to economize all the time. 

During my Freshman year I earned $80 by taking care of the Harvard 
Union I^ibrary four nights each week and Sunday morning, and about 
$125 doing stenographic and typewriter work. This, with $150 Price 
Greenleaf Aid which I got from the College, and $50 which I had saved, 
enabled me to finish my first year with only a small debt on my hands. 

In my Sophomore year I did not fare so well, because this year I got 
no aid from the College, while my expenses remained about the same. 

With my library work and what stenographic work I could j^ick up 
from the students I earned about $250 during the year. This sum, you 
will see, was insuliicient to meet my expenses, so I had to put off paying 



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my last term-bill until the beginning of my third year, when I used the 
money I earned during the summer to pay it. 

The extra work I am obliged to do takes up much of my time, so that 
I am unable to do as well with my college work as I should like. Unless 
a fellow has an exceptionally strong inducement to come to college, I 
should advise him not to enter if he has no money ahead, and does not see 
his way clear to earning the greater part of his expenses each year, as the 
trouble and worry of paying one's college bills, when relying on one's 
own resources only, are a strong deterrent from doing efficient college 
work. 

Very sincerely, 



Dear Mr. : — 

In response to your letter of recent date, I am glad to give 
a financial statement of my College career. 

I began saving money to pay my College expenses during my Senior 
year at high school, and by working for a year after graduation I accumu- 
lated $380 to start with. I think it is well for a fellow who is young at 
graduation from "prep." school to devote a year to work rather than to 
enter college immediately, for by following the former course he is not 
compelled to spend valuable time in his Freshman year earning money 
when he should be winning high rank in his studies and broadening by 
contact with his fellows. Freshman year I lived at home, so my experi- 
ence is of no value to most men; however, I managed to end the year 
with more money than when I began it. 

Sophomore year I had a College room. My expenses, besides tuition, 
were: board, $125; rent and care of room, $25; light, heat, and furnish- 
ings, $40; clothing, etc., $80; books, $35; car-fares, $25; luxuries and 
pleasures, $25; being altogether a httle over $500. This covers my 
entire expenses for the year, and is, if anything, a bit below the average, 
as my room rent of only $25 is exceptional. During the same period, by 
working during the summer vacation and odd jobs during term-time, I 
earned about $170, not including my scholarship, thus being less by about 
$330 than my expenses. 

Very sincerely yours, 



Dear Sir: — 

Remembering the help and advice I received from the 
previous edition of this pamphlet, I am only too glad to contribute to 
the new edition what little I can give. 

Previous to my entrance into the Freshman class last year, I received 
Price Greenleaf to the amount of $200. During the summer I earned 
$90 teaching manual training in the summer schools of one of our large 



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cities. Hence, upon entrance I had $290 to my credit. During the 
college year I managed to secure $75 worth of tutoring. Total: $365. 

My expenses (as I now remember them, for I kept no exact account) 
were : — 

Tuition $150 Books $10 

Board 125 Travelling expenses ..... 30 

Room (half) 50 Laundry 10 

Extra half-course 10 Furniture 5 

Locker 2 Athletics, fees, etc 10 

Infirmary 4 Incidentals 25 

Fuel and light 5 435 

This is a fair survey of how the expenses of a college year run. In 
most cases, generally, I would advise a student to do whatever extra 
work he intends to do in the way of earning money during the summer 
vacation. He not only has more time and leisure and increased oppor- 
tunities, but is afterwards free from distraction during term time. Not 
that there are no opportunities nor extra time enough during the college 
year to do various things in the line of work, but that it is better to devote 
one's entire time to College and all that goes with it during College time, 
and when the time for earning money comes, to enter into it with heart 
and soul. It seems best to keep school and the business world more or 
less separated, for the bustle of the latter does not always harmonize 
with the calm of the former to good effect. 

This year — my Sophomore year — I have a $250 scholarship, $90 
from my summer teaching, and tutoring engaged for to the amount of 
$100. I might here remark that tutoring, while it pays well, is not so 
easy to obtain as are the countless other positions which are open to the 
student, but which, although remunerative, take up more time. No 
student who is not afraid of work should hesitate to come to Harvard, 
especially if he has $150 or so assured beforehand to meet the necessary 
expenses at the very beginning. The first year is the hardest; after 
that it becomes easier sailing. 

Very truly yours, 



Dear Sir: — 

My College expenses last year were approximately as follows : — 

Tuition $150.00 

Room (one half) 75.00 

Board 120.00 

Incidentals 50.00 

Club dues, subscriptions, etc 30.00 

425.00 

I was able to meet these expenses with what money I could earn or 
borrow. 



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My receipts were as follows : — 



Loan Fund $ 75.00 

Evening school 125.00 

Work furnished by Employment office 30.00 

Saved from simimer work 100.00 

Work for Gas Company 50.00 

Borrowed from a friend 45.00 

425.00 

There is no reason why a strong fellow, in good health, should not go 
to Harvard without much financial aid from his parents. There are 
plenty of chances to get good remunerative work, and there is the Loan 
Fund for those who are not successful in competing for scholarships. 

Yours very truly, 



Dear Mr. : — 

The following is what I consider to be a fairly accurate 
statement of my College expenses for my Freshman year, 1905-06: — 

Tuition $150.00 Room (alone) $ 80.00 

Board (one-half at Randall) 70.00 Travelling expenses .... 12.00 

Board (one-half at Memorial) 100.00 Laundry 15.00 

Infirmary fee 4.00 Incidentals 54.83 

Books 10.00 495 g3 

To meet this expense, I secured $150, Price Greenleaf Aid, which, with 
what money I had on hand from my previous summer's work, kept me 
from the necessity of too heavy and frequent financial demands upon my 
parents. The figures for the expenses of my Sophomore year are not 
at hand, but as I remember, the expense of that year was higher owing 
to additional tuition fee, more expensive room and the furnishings for 
same. 

At present I hold a scholarship, and am able to earn a considerable 
amount by summer work, thereby considerably diminishing the size of 
any future debts for my education. Although the opportunities for 
earning money at Harvard are many and generally not unpleasant, from 
my observations of three years I would strongly advise any man coming 
to Harvard to first be sure of his ability to meet the expenses of his 
Freshman year without too much work and worry and consequent- in- 
juring of chances for a scholarship for the next year. I have seen men 
come to College with practically no finances to rely upon, and yet be 
able to keep up their work and meet expenses ; but from talks with these 
men, I am confident that they would not recommend that course to 
another man similarly situated. As I said before, there are great advan- 
tages at Harvard for making money, but no student of good abihties 



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should allow such work to materially affect his work in his courses and 
injure his chances of winning one of the numerous scholarships, for^ 
after all, as one hears it said so often here at Harvard, "The best person 
to work for is the College Office.'^ Trusting that this somewhat per- 
sonal information will be of use to some man entering College, like my- 
self, with limited financial support, I am 

Yours very truly, 



Dear Sir: — 

Although I have kept a careful account of my expenses 
at Harvard, I hardly think that it will prove valuable to the majority 
of those about to enter College, for I have lived at home throughout my 
entire course and, accordingly, I have not had to consider the expense 
of board and room, the largest items of expenditure with the exception 
of the tuition fee. Nevertheless I will enclose a tabulated list and let 
you judge of its usefulness for yourself. 

1904-05 

Tuition $150.00 

Stillman Infirmary fee ... . 4.00 

Books 36.58 

Carfare 22.40 

Miscellaneous 24.40 



1905-06 


1906-01 


$150.00 


$150.00 


4.00 


4.00 


20.17 


10.00 


21.00 


19.45 


26.95 


27.10 



237.38 222.12 210.55 

The first year my book bill was larger than any other year, because I 
had to buy several large dictionaries, for I intended to make a specialty 
of language work. These books have proved useful throughout my 
entire four years' course, but anyone who was willing to do all his work 
in the College Library (helped, perhaps, by the cheap, but very handy 
pocket dictionaries) could get along with much less expense. The first 
two years I took six courses each year, so that I had to buy more books 
than in my Junior year, when I took only four courses; moreover, a friend, 
by generously lending me all the books required in one course, saved me 
quite an expense in that year. 

I should certainly advise any newcomer to buy as many books as he 
can, second-hand, especially foreign books, which are usually so cheaply 
bound that no real advantage would be obtained by buying them new. 

The only other items I need explain are those lumped together under 
the heading "miscellaneous." I have always had to stay at College at 
least two afternoons a week, and my lunches (taken at different places) 
are placed under this heading. This also includes such items as H. A. A. 
ticket, locker fee, class dinner, etc. The first year I did not have an 
H. A. A. ticket, but I think it would be wise for everyone (especially a 
fellow living at home and not getting any of the dormitory life) to buy 



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one of these tickets, for at the big foot-ball games as at no other time 
one feels his spirit of enthusiasm and regard for Harvard quickened and 
finds a means of expressing it in song and cheer. 

For three years I did not belong to the "Union," but I should advise 
everyone to join this as a pleasant place for study, reading, recreation, 
conversation, etc. Its advantages are no less real because they cannot 
be computed in dollars and cents. 

In meeting the expenses quoted above, I have relied on my ability to 
win scholarships and have not tried to do anything in term time, especi- 
ally since I have had to do outside reading for honors. In the summer 
I have endeavored to improve my physical condition by staying outdoors 
as much as possible. Last sunomer I earned $75 by tending a number 
of houses, keeping the lawns cut, etc., and managed to get a Uttle vaca- 
tion before returning to College. In my Sophomore year I obtained a 
scholarship of $150, the next year one of $250, and this year one of $300. 

These expenses are strictly College expenses, and no account has been 
made of laundry, clothing, amusements not strictly college, nor any of 
the small items which tend to swell expenses. 

Although I feel that this account can be of httle value to the great 
majority of students, I have been very glad to answer your letter as 
best I could. 

Very sincerely yours. 



Dear Mr. : — 

I gladly reply to your request regarding the matter of 
students^ expenses at Harvard, and hope that the information may be 
of some use to you, as your publication is, as I happen to know from my 
own experience, of much value to prospective Harvard students. 

During my Freshman year my expenses were approximately as 
follows : — 



Expenses 



Tuition . . 
Board . . . 
Room . . . 
Railroad fare 
Books . . . 
Union dues 
Laundry . . 
Infirmary fee 
Clothing . . 
Incidentals 



$150 

144 

70 

40 

20 

10 

10 

4 

10 

JO 

508 



Receipts 
Harvard Club of Scholar- 
ship $200 

Price Greenleaf Aid 150 

Mother 100 

Kind aunt 50 

500 

(Under "Incidentals," which forms quite 
an item, come postage, games, theatres, car- 
fares, and other small items which soon loom 
large in toto.) 



When I left College at the end of my Freshman year, I had a very 
small debt which was easily met. But during the following summer I 



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made no money — largely because I was engaged in an enterprise which 
was good-paying but unfortunately I was under heavy expense, too, 
and could save nothing. I returned to College, however, through the 
kindness of the Dean, who loaned me enough to meet tuition. This is 
the record of Sophomore year: — 



Receipts 

Beneficiary Fund 

Tower Fund . 40 

Loan Fund 75 

Mother . 100 

Randall Hall 125 

390 



Expenses 

Tuition $180 

Board 130 

Room 45 

Railroad fare . 20 

Books 5 

Union dues 10 

Laundry 10 

Clothes 10 

Infirmary 5 

Incidentals 50 

465 



At the end of this year I left Harvard considerably in debt, but man- 
aged to earn $100, and saved most of it during the summer. I paid my 
term bill then, and returned to College by means of a scholarship, which 

I now hold for the second time, from the Harvard Club of . This 

year my expenses will probably range around $550, divided as follows : — 

Tuition $190 Laundry 

Board . 130 Clothes 

Room 70 Infirmary 

Railroad fare 40 Incidentals 

Books , — Laboratory 

Union dues . 10 



25 
4 

50 

5 

534 



I shall leave Harvard considerably in debt this year, but as I shall 
have completed my course I shall have plenty of opportunities to pay 
my debts to the University, to the Harvard Club, and to private individ- 
uals who have loaned me $5 or $10 when I needed it badly. I may say, 
also, that I think it advisable for a poor student to take the A. B. degree 
in three years, if he possibly can manage it, unless, perhaps, in the case 
of those who intend to lead a scholastic rather than a professional or 
business life. The reason for this is that a year's time saved means, 
when measured in terms of money, at least $1000. It also leaves one 
free to begin life untrammeled at the end of the regular four years. 



Sincerely yours, 



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Dear Sir: — 

I have lived during my College course on a somewhat 
different plan from the great mass of men. My mother and I wished to 
be together and, therefore, we rented a six-room apartment beyond the 
Divinity School. While the cost for the family is gi'eater here than in 
Ohio, the cost of my rooms and board is much less than that of most 
men. I have been taking six courses this past year, so that my tuition 
alone has been high. I have spent a considerable amount on incidentals 
of which I have kept no record, but the following are my chief items of 
expenditure for the past year : — 

Room-rent (one-third) $ 75 

Board (one-third) 60 

Tuition 200 

Clothing 110 

Union, books, subscriptions, etc 40 

485 

I have not gone back to Ohio but a visit in New York brought some 
travelHng expenses, and with such incidentals as magazines, a few dances, 
theatre, gifts, etc., I have spent a total of about $600. 

This has been met by $200 won in a scholarship, $300 profit from 
vacation-work selling books, and the remaining $100 from my mother. 

Respectfully yours. 



Dear Sir : — 

I regret that, owing to a slight illness, I have been unable 
to answer your letter of the sixth instant sooner. I am glad to be able 
to give you a fairly close estimate of my expenses and receipts during 
my first two years in College, as follows : — 

1905-06 
Expenses Receipts 

Tuition $150.00 Savings $300.00 

Room rent 70.00 Price Greenleaf Aid ... . 225.00 

Board (Randall) 95.00 Clerical work 20.00 

Fuel and light ■ 12.50 Other work 6.00 

Washing 15.00 From home 50.00 

Clothes 35.00 601.00 

Furniture 20.00 

Books 15.00 

Infirmary fee 4.00 

Incidentals 30.00 

446.50 



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This does not include travelling expenses, which were provided by 
kind relatives. Such expenses, of course, depend upon the individual 
case. I roomed in a dormitory and got most of my furniture from the 
Loan Furniture Association. My savings had been accumulated during 
a year spent as a bookkeeper after graduation from high school. The 
clerical work consisted in addressing invitations and circulars, and in 
work in a Boston department store. The other work was scene-shifting: 
at amateur theatricals. 

1906-07 
Expenses Receipts 

Tuition $170.00 Balance, 1905-06 $154.50 

Room and heat (half) . . . 72.50 Scholarship 250.00 

Board (Randall) ..... 110.00 Tutoring 70.50 

Clothes 50.00 Other work 20.00 

Washing . 15.00 Summer work 100 .00 

Light (half) . 1.50 From home 51.00 

Furniture 15.00 646.00 

Books 10.00 

Incidentals 52.00 

Infirmary fee 4.00 

500.00 

My experience has been that it is best to come to College with the 
needs of the first year provided for. A man may earn considerably 
more money by outside work than I earned; but this keeps him from his 
studies. Thus by preventing one from getting a scholarship, this work 
is often a positive loss, and also keeps a man from getting the full bene- 
fit of his education. Tutoring is the most profitable outside work, but 
is hard to get, in paying amounts, until at least the Junior year. A 
poor student necessarily loses a great many social and other advantages, 
which, however, are not essential. 

For the present year I am almost entirely provided for by a scholar- 
ship of $300, a prize of $250, and my balance from Sophomore year. I 
have a considerable amount of tutoring in sight, also. 

Hoping this information may be of use for the pamphlet, I am 

Very truly yours. 



My Dear Mr. : — 

I shall be very glad to tell you anything that may be of 
use to you in regard to my expenses and how I met them. I was ad- 
mitted to advanced standing as I came from another college. The follow- 
ing is an exact account of my expenses and receipts for my Sophomore 
year : — 



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Expenses 

Tuition $150.00 

Infirmary fee 4.00 

Board (Randall Hall) . . . 116.64 

Room (one-half), furnished . 34.00 

Books and stationery . . . 29,46 

Laundry 4.30 

Sundries, such as clothes, 

fares, fees, and incidentals 63.00 

Total expense 401.40 



Receipts 
Cash on hand from summer's 

work $200.00 

Waiter at Randall 122.68 

Tutoring 23.75 

Received from home .... 18.40 

Scholarship 150.00 

Total cash received .... 514.83 
Balance cash on hand . . . 113.43 

401.40 



These are actual College expenses, exclusive of my fare coming here, 
which was $35. I attended in for two years before I 



came here, and I find I can get through just as easily here as I could 
there, if anything easier. While my expenses are greater, the oppor- 
tunities for earning money here are also vastly greater than in a small 
College. And you get better pay for what you do. For example, I 
received seven cents an hour for work in the dining-hall out there, while 
here I receive twenty-five cents an hour. And then, to the man who is 
willing to work for it, the scholarships and prizes offer an easy means 
of getting money. I secured a Price Greenleaf of $150 on my mid-year 
marks; and for this year I have another Price Greenleaf of $300, as a 
result of my final grades. High grades are by no means unattainable; 
and along with high grades comes the opportunity of tutoring, and this 
is a well-paid work. 

My expense account while low is not exceptional. I find many fellows 
getting through on the same or even less. It is simply a matter of ex- 
cluding the non-essentials. I am practically seK-dependent, and I find 
that I could get through Harvard fully as easy as I could through a, 
smaller college, even if there were no scholarships to be had. However, 
as it is, any one with a very small amount of industry can win a scholar- 
ship which will offset his tuition and even more. Therefore, I would 
urge the student who has to earn his way through College, to come here 
by all means, even if he has to come 1,700 miles to get here as I did; 
for here he has all the advantages of a large university, and he can get 
through easier than he can in a smaller college. 

Sincerely yours, 



Dear Sir: — 

I entered Harvard with advanced standing, coming from 

the School. This fact helped me in procuring scholarships for my 

two years in College. 
I also come from - 
the . 



and this fact enabled me to borrow money from 



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The last half of my first year I gave up outside work so as to do well 
in my studies and retain my scholarship. 

Last summer, instead of working, I took the two courses in the Har- 
vard Engineering Camp, thereby making my work much easier this year, 
and giving me a greater opportunity for earning money during the College 
year. 

My expenses are briefly set forth as follows : — 



Junior Year, 1906-07 
Resources Expenses 

Teaching (1905-06) $200 Tuition (half-course extra) . . $160 

Hotel (summer 1906) .... 80 Laboratory fees 20 

Waiter at Randall (four months) 48 Room 30 

Normal School Scholarship . . 150 Heat and light 6 

Loan 50 Furniture 20 

528 Books and supplies 26 

Board at Randall 100 

Personal 120 

482 

Harvard Engineering Camp 

Resources Expenses 

Association $50.00 Tuition $102.50 

Loans from relatives . . . . 65.00 Books 5.00 

Cash 25.00 Other expenses 20.00 

140.00 127.50 



Senior Year, 1907-08 



Resources 

Scholarship 

Loan from relative . . 
Summer work (2 weeks) 
Randall (three months) 
Teaching (Y. M. C. A.) 
Teaching (in Cambridge) 
Position as companion (est.) 
Miscellaneous 



$150 
100 


Expenses 

Tuition 

Room 


$150 
70 


25 


Light 


2 


15 

60 

5 


Furniture 

Board at Randall (estimated) . 
Books 


8 

120 

10 


250 
10 


Graduation (estimated) . . . 
Personal 


75 
160 



615 



595 



My expenses might have been cut down considerably, if I had not 
taken in such things as the Union, foot-ball and base-ball games, etc. 
I could probably have gone through my first year on $425, and my last 
year on $550, if I had cut off every unnecessary expense. 



Yours truly, 



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Dear Sir : — 

Owing to the fact that I have no sure account of my 
expenses outside of my term-bills which have been issued for last year, 
it is hard for me to make the account of my yearly expenses with detailed 
accuracy. Still what I can give of help, I give gladly. Since I live 
within thirty-three miles of the University, I was able to go home often 
last year, and by so doing was enabled to lessen my expenses. I entered 
College fairly well equipped with various articles, as necessary and help- 
ful books, a student's lamp, small furnitiu-e for a room, etc. — things 
which I had collected during my days at the preparatory school. I also 
entered with enough clothing to carry me through the year. 

I shared one large room with a fellow student. This room was on the 

second floor of a private house, well located on Street, within three 

minutes' walk of College Yard. Several other students were in this house. 
I chose Randall Hall as my boarding place. 

I would say that my room was well heated, lighted by gas, well fur- 
nished and cared for. 

Below are my expenses for my Sophomore and first year at Harvard : — 

Tuition S160.00 

Board (Randall Hall) 74.03 * 

Room 62.50 

Fees 6.00 

302.53 

My entire expenses for the year did not reach the sum of $350. I 
lessened this amount with one hundred dollars of my own money, the 
remainder was given by my parents. During the summer and various 
holidays, I assist my father in his business, and thus help to meet some 
of my expenses. This year I am in a College dormitory. My expenses 
for the half-year have reached $151.36. 

Yours very truly. 

Dear Sir : — 

My expenses for last year were as follows : — 

Tuition $170 Stillman fee $4 

Board 125 Laundry 20 

Room 72 Clothes 25 

Furniture 75 Books 15 

Harvard Union 10 Incidentals 54 

570 

This is somewhat higher than necessary, but you will notice I took an 
extra course, and the furniture should be divided by four. As you 
might say, I took life "easy," thinking it better to work for a scholarship. 

I came to College with $470 earned in a wholesale hardware house, 
received $150 Price Greenleaf Aid at Mid-years and $20 from my parents 



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at Christmas. This left a balance of $70. During the summer I earned 
$70 as a bell-boy in a summer hotel — for most boys there are better 
and more pleasant ways of earning money than this. Then I received 
a scholarship of $225, making $365 to meet this year's expenses, which 
will be about $500. So far I have done some typewriting and clerical 
work. 

It seems strange to me that more boys don't come from the far west — 
especially is it strange why many will come 1500 or 2000 miles to the 
middle western schools and still think it too far to come to Harvard. 
After the railroad fare is paid, the Westerner is on the same plane with the 
Easterner as to expense. Many Easterners work their way through, and 
I see no reason why the Westerners can not accomplish as much. Those 
who are deterred from coming because of the expenses to be met after 
they get here, surely do not fully realize that there is no place in the 
country where so many scholarships are open to good students. Many 
Westerners perhaps think they can have a better time on the money at 
their local western schools, but if they have to work their way at all, 
they can do it better at Harvard. Indeed, even were this not the case, 
the many advantages of Harvard as a university, and of Boston as a 
city, .are more than worth the extra effort which might be necessary. 
It must be admitted that there are inconveniences attached to coming 
so far, but I believe the Westerners now here will agree with me in not 
regretting the inconvenience. 

Perhaps it would be well to suggest to the Far Westerners who feel 
unable to come because of expense that they get a better idea of the 
opportunities here, by corresponding with Westerners now here whose 
names they might secure by writing to you or to the Appointments 
Office. 

Yours respectfully, 



Dear Sir : — 

My expenses during my first three years in 
far as I can give them in detail, have been about as follows : - 

1904-05 1905-06 

Tuition $150.00 $150.00 

Room . 95.00 95.00 

Food 38.00 45.00 

Travel 23.00 40.00 

Books, stationery, etc. . . 25.00 25.00 

Social expenses 7.00 

Laboratory fees 5.00 

Gymnasium locker .... 2.75 

Infirmary fee 4.00 4.00 

Membership in Union . . . 

Miscellaneous, average about 30.00 30.00 

Clothing, average about . . 85.00 85.00 

450.00 488.75 



College, as 

1906-07 

$190.00 
96.25 
68.00 . 
46.50 
31.00 
29.00 
38.25 

2.00 

4.00 
10.00 
30.00 
85.00 



630.00 



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The item for clothing includes expenses for the summer vacations; 
the other items do not. The last two items are only estimated; the 
others, subject to the explanations below, are very nearly correct. 

My room was in a private house, and the amount stated for room-rent 
includes heat, light, and care of the rooms. As my home is only about 
thirty miles from Cambridge, I went home every other week during 
most of my Freshman year, and every week after that, so that the amount 
set down for food is for only about five and a half days in the week dur- 
ing term-time, and does not include vacations. For the first half of 
my Freshman year I boarded at Randall; during the second half of the 
year I took my meals at my room; in my Sophomore year I took one 
meal a day at the Quincy Lunch or the Dunster Cafe, and the others in 
my room ; and during my Junior year I boarded at Randall. My laundry- 
work was done at home, so that I can give no account of that ; and there 
were a few doctor's bills incurred at home, of which I have no record. 

During my first three years I held scholarships amounting to $725, 
and received about $45 for tutoring, part of which I did during the sum- 
mer of 1905. The rest of the money I received from my father. 

I attended the Summer School in 1905, my total expenses there being 
about $50. 

My total expenses for this year, aside from graduation expenses, will 
probably not be very different from those of last year; and I hold a 
larger scholarship this year than before. 

Sincerely yours, 



Dear Sir: — 

Expenses, 1905-06 

Tuition: fees and examina- Clothes $46.55 

tion expenses $174.58 Books and stationery . . . 26.96 

Board: from day of leaving Travelling and postage . . . 32.14 

home to return 187.96 Laundry 22.63 

Rent 65.00 Fees and subscriptions . . 23.55 

Gas 4.43 Athletic goods, lockers, etc. . 10.50 

Coal 19.18 Theatre 7.45 

Furniture 130.13 Necessary miscellanies . . . 11.08 

762.14 

This includes every expense m any way connected with my College 
hfe; sundries amounting to $39.87 should be added for the total expenses 
of my Freshman year, — September 15 to June 20, — $802.01. 

This could have been reduced in several items. I could have saved 
in rent and in furniture expense by taking a room-mate. On the other 
hand I have used new furniture, have needed to add Httle to it, and 



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now after three years could get $75 for it; I think, therefore, that it 
pays to buy furniture thus, provided that one uses it carefully. The 
board-bill would have been $50 lower had I gone to Randall instead of 
to Memorial. In books, also, a saving could have been made by buying 
second-hand books, or by selling those used. 

Receipts, 1905-06 

Cash, Sept. 15, '05 (saved in six years' work as 

drug clerk after leaving school) $1200.00 

Copjring notes 4.00 

Leasing desk-room 17.50 

Greek play 6.75 

Proctor — Law School Examination 6.00 

Clerical work (Hasty Pudding) 1.00 

Gifts from home 20.00 

Interest 25.96 

1281.21 

Owing to ignorance I missed many opportunities to earn small amounts, 
and did not even apply for a monitorship. I did not look for any con- 
tinuous work, because I wanted to put all my time on studying, without 
serious hindrance. 

During the summer I earned $199 in the drug business, and cleared 
$100. 

Receipts, 1906-07 

Cash: Sept. 26, '06 $577.05 ' 

Work for subway engineer 5.25 

Cooperative dividend 3.22 

Monitorship 14.20 

Gifts from home 135.00 

Interest 6.21 

740.93 

Through misunderstanding the rules I failed to get a scholarship this 
year, and at the end had only $100. During the vacation, 1907, I cleared 
about $40 to $50 by selling books. 

Expenses, 1906-07 

Tuition and Stilhnan fee . . $194.00 Books $47.17 

Rent 75.00 Travelling and postage . . . 16.50 

Gas 3.38 Laundry 18.03 

Coal 0.50 Fees and subscriptions . . 13.85 

Furniture 3.58 Athletic expenses 17.00 

Board 103.74 Theatre 4.60 

Clothes 6.85 Miscellaneous 4.75 

514.95 



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Sundries would bring this to $535 for my Sophomore year. This 
represents a saving of $265, due to reduction in board-bill — by eating at 
Randall, — and to the fact that I needed no furniture or clothes. 

These figures represent the expenses of one Hving 350 miles from 
home, so that no saving in board and laundry is possible. Any student 
in that position can Uve independently and comfortably on $525 to $550 
a year, with enough to eat, enough to wear, a comfortable room, clean 
books, and a share in the general life of his College, with a little amuse- 
ment in addition. He cannot very well join any clubs, cannot subscribe 
to every paper, and must on the whole watch every cent. If willing to 
apply himself even moderately, he should be able to secure scholarship 
aid of $200 to $250 a year, and to earn — and save — $100 a vacation, 
and $25 to $50 a term. $250 a year is, therefore, all that one should 
need in the way of outside help. 



Dear Sir: — 

My expenses for 1906-07 were approximately as follows : — 

Room (one-half) $62.50 Furniture $ 40.00 

Board 85.00 Tuition 150.00 

Heat 15.00 Laboratory fees 20.00 

Light 1.50 Incidentals 30.00 

404.00 

These expenses I met by a scholarship (Normal School Scholarship) of 
$150; by working during the summer vacation. Certain musical "jobs" 
netted me some money, and with a little aid from my parents I paid 
all my bills. 

This year's expenses will be greater because of my graduation from 
College and the numerous expenses it entails. I cannot definitely say 
what they will be. 

This term passed they were : — 

Tuition $150.00 Room . $ 62.50 

Laboratory fee 10.00 Heat and light 15.00 

Board 34.00 Incidentals 25.00 

296.50 

I received a scholarship of $275, and this coupled with my earnings 
last summer will go a large way toward covering my expenses. 

Sincerely, 



66 

My dear Mr. : — 

During my Freshman year I kept a detailed account of 
my expenses and receipts, and although I did not retain the record, I 
remember quite distinctly the main items and their amounts, which were 
as follows : — 

Expenses Receipts 

Tuition $150 Price Greenleaf Aid $150 

Suite (one-third) 30 Clerical work 65 

Board 95 Aid from home 152 

Books and stationery .... 12 357 

*Carfare 30 

*Sundries 50 

367 

If I were to advise a student who expected to partially earn his way 
through Harvard College I should urge him by all means not to limit 
himself to the above amount. I did not attend theatres, or class dinners, 
or join the Union, and this is bad, especially for a man who is not in a 
dormitory, for he fails to get in touch with his class and misses much 
that the University has to give him in the way of outside lectures, etc. 
I believe a fairly capable fellow might well spend and earn as follows : — 

Expenses 

Tuition $150 

Room (one-half) 60 

Union fee 10 

Board 110 

Books 10 

Sundries (excluding clothes) . . . 100 

440 

Earnings 

Price Greenleaf Aid or Scholarship $150 (or perhaps more) 
Tutoring or clerical work .... 125 

Earned during summer 90 

Deficit 75 

440 

Hoping this may be of some use to you, 

I remain yours respectfully. 



* Sundries does not include clothing. Note also that the item of carfare might be omitted by 
some nearby men. 



67 

Dear Sir: — 

In reply to your request of the sixth inst., am glad to 
give you the exact figures of my expenditures in my Freshman year, 
and an approximate amount of those of last year. In my first year, I 
Hved in a private family where I got a room for eighty dollars (one-half), 
including furnishings, heat, and light, and board at four dollars per 
week. 

Board (at $4 per week for thirty-nine weeks) . . . $156.00 

Tuition and Infirmary fee 154.00 

Room (share) 80.00 

Laundry 26.60 

Books and note-books 28.20 

Other expenses (including H. A. A. Ticket, Coopera- 
tive membership fee, Crimson subscription, 
amusements, articles of clothing, pressing, fares, 

etc.) 66.47 

511.27 

As I had ready $500 to pay my first year's expenses, I got along 
easily, and devoted my time mainly to studying. During the summer I 
earned about $80 as waiter and clerk at a resort hotel. This, with a 
$225 scholarship which was awarded me, and $200 from my father, made 
$505. My expenses in 1906-07 were about twenty dollars more than 
the year before (I haven't the figures in Cambridge), a deficit which I 
made up by a little tutoring last summer. 

From my experience I should sscy that it would not be easy to get 
along on less than five hundred dollars a year, and that if a student de- 
sires to make the most of his academic opportunities, he has no time 
for fixed hours of outside work. Unless an income of about that amount 
is assured, it is best to complete the course in three years. 

Very respectfully yours, 



Dear Mr. : — 

Kindly excuse my delay in answering your request, my 
examinations have taken up all my time. 

In 1905-06, I hved with my parents, and a Price Greenleaf Aid of 
$150 paid for my tuition. My food I got at home, and my car-fares and 
clothes I paid for by working during the summer of 1905. 

The report which I submit for 1906-07 is not strictly accurate, as I 
have no memoranda except my term-bills, and these merely explain my 
expenses. However, the approximation as a whole is not very far out 
of the way. 



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Expenses 




Tuition 


. $160.00 


Rent (one-half) 


. 72.50 


Food (Randall Hall) . . . 


. 116.67 


Sickness at Stillman . . 


. 14.60 


Regular fee for Stillman . 


4.00 


Gas bill (one-half) . . . 


2.83 


Sundries (laundry, theatre 


s, 


carfares, etc.) 


. 74.40 



Receipts 

P. G. Aid $50.00 

Loan ■ . 70.00 

Monitorships (three) . . . 25.00 

Brooks House work .... 20.00 

Summer work 265.00 

Work at odd moments 

(Class-day, office, etc.) . . 15.00 

445.00 



445.00 



In summing up, I should say that $400 a year carries one through 
Harvard very well, and gives a little for luxuries besides. I should 
advise any ambitious student having the funds to meet his first year's 
expenses to attend ; if he has the right spirit in him, he will find plenty 
of ways of earning the money for the last three. 

Hoping this may be of service, I am 

Sincerely yours, 



Dear Sir: — 

An opportunity to furnish some information which may 
aid a man in deciding to come to Harvard is a most acceptable one. It 
is only too small a share in helping to describe the advantages of Harvard. 
When I entered College in my Freshman year I had $140 which I had 
saved previously. My family furnished me with a large part of my 
clothing, and because I lived only about twenty miles from Cambridge, 
it was possible for me to have my washing done at home. The follow- 
ing shows my account for that year : — 



Expended 

Tuition $150 

Room (furnished, lighted, 

heated) ......... 70 

Board 120 

Books and stationery .... 40 

Infirmary fee 4 

Locker fees and incidentals . 10 

394 



Received 

Saved previously $140 

Price Greenleaf Aid 125 

From my family 129 

394 



This small expense for my first year was possible because I gave up a 
large amount of social life or amusement, which, though pleasant and 
advantageous, is unnecessary for the performance of good college work — 
especially in the Freshman year. This did not mean that I grew " stale " 



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as the saying goes ; there are diverse interests enough — without expense 
— in this great University to prevent any man's becoming narrow. This 
is one reason, I think, which should make Harvard's appeal to the poor 
student a strong one. There is so much of interest here, and it is so situ- 
ated, that a fellow need not feel the burden of financial restriction or of 
social disadvantages. In spite of my abstinence from expensive amuse- 
ments in my first year I made many friends — not friends of an even- 
ing, or the kind whom you nod to, but good, true friends. 
The expenses and receipts of my Sophomore year follow: — 

Expenses Received 

Tuition (extra course) .... $170 Scholarship $250 

Board 94 Monitorships 10 

Infirmary fee 4 Earned in summer 45 

Union 10 Received from family .... 141 

Books and stationeiy .... 28 445 
Room (heated, lighted, furnished) 70 
Incidentals (clothing, amuse- 
ments, etc.) 70 

446 

This year it was possible, owing to my scholarship, to go about more. 
My Freshman year had taught me where extra time and money could 
be spent with most advantage. And by this time I was convinced on 
one point — regarding which all poor students are more or less con- 
cerned, — that is, is it better to attempt to work outside of College hours 
to earn money for defraying expenses, or to devote especially hard work 
to study, and endeavor to win a scholarship? From experience, I advise 
a fellow who feels that he can do good work in academic lines to con- 
centrate thereon, and try and obtain a scholarship. This process has a 
two-fold advantage — it will not only help materially in meeting ex- 
penses, but it will also increase largely a man's knowledge — the primary 
object — supposedly so, at least — for coming to College. Whatever 
outside work a man does, let it be in the form of exercise or of meeting 
his classmates. This advice, of com-se, does not meet all cases, but it 
applies to the average Harvard man. 

I feel sure that no Harvard man who does good work — good academic 
work — need feel that he will be unable to overcome financial difficulties. 

Very truly yours, 



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My dear Mr. : — 

My expenses during my four years in Cambridge have 
ranged by years approximately as follows : — 

Freslunan $780 

Sophomore 820 

Junior 930 

Senior 1,050 

Living, as I do, in the middle West, my travelling expenses, which I 
have included in the above calculations, have amounted to a consider- 
able sum, as I go home during the summer and for the Christmas holi- 
days. I have not been aided by any scholarship benefits, but I have 
earned about $75 to $100 each year at various occupations — teaching, 
typewriting, canvassing, etc. I have not been unduly extravagant, but 
I could probably have saved more money than I did. However, I think 
it is hard for the average student of comfortable circumstances, who 
indulges in a conservative share of College pleasures and diversions, to 
hold his annual expenses below $900. I have spent about $100 a year 
for room-rent, $200 for board, $150 for tuition, and $400 to $450 for 
sundry matters, including $125 for travelling. 

If any further information is needed I will cheerfully offer it. 

Truly, 

Dear Sir : — 

My expenses last year were approximately as follows : — 

Tuition (including Laboratory fees) $200 

Board 85 

Room , 65 

Books 15 

Fuel and light 15 

Incidentals 100 

480 

The greater part of this I earned in teaching before entering College. 
I received $75 from the Loan Fund, and earned $50 doing clerical work 
on Saturday afternoons and evenings. 

When I entered Harvard I had hoped to defray expenses somewhat 
by teaching an evening school, but I soon found that with six courses, 
it required nearly all my time to do satisfactory work. 

My expenses were made somewhat lower owing to the fact that my 
home is near Boston, and by going home frequently there is a consid- 
erable saving in board, washing and mending. 

Yours very truly, 



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Dear Sir: — 

I have never kept an itemized account of my expenses 
here and can only give you the rough totals. In Freshman year my 
expenses amounted to a httle over $800; Sophomore year to about $900, 
and Junior year to a little over $1000. This year with the added ex- 
pense of graduation, etc., they will probably amount to $1100 or $1200. 
These amounts include the dues of about two clubs yearly. To meet 
these expenses in part I tutored a boy last summer; had a position as 
master at a summer camp for boys the summer before; and worked in 

during the two preceding summers; in all earning a total of not 

more than $650. I have done no sort of work during the College term. 
I have found that the added expense of the last two years has been 
mainly due to frequent use of clubs, and believe that a fellow restricting 
himself to two clubs might go through College easily and comfortably 
on $800 to $900 a year. I regret that I am unable to give you a better 
and more complete account. 

Yours very truly, 



Dear Sir : — 

I am very sorry to say that I have not kept an accurate 
cash account while in College, and so am not able to give you a state- 
ment of my expenses which is absolutely correct. However, with the 
aid of my old term-bills, my check-book stubs, and other memoranda, 
I have made a table of my expenses for my first three years in College. 
I have estimated the figures for the present year on the basis of what I 
spent in the first two years. The figures in the table given, though not 
absolutely accurate, are approximately so. 

1905-06 1906-07 1907-08 

Tuition (including Infirmary and 

Laboratory fees) $154.00 $184.00 $192.00 

Rooni rent (including heat and 

Ught) 80.00 

Clothes 40.00 

Travelling expenses (including 

local street car fares) .... 30.00 

Harvard tJnion dues 10.00 

Books, stationery, postage, etc . 35.00 

Incidental expenses* 50.00 

Board 130.00 



70.00 


100.00 


60.00 


60.00 


30.00 


30.00 




10.00 


35.00 


35.00 


70.00 


70.00 


140.00 


140.00 



529.00 589.00 637.00 

* The item "incidentals" covers such expenses as tickets for athletic contests, theatre 
tickets, class and society dues, rent of locker, and whatever other expenditures would not come 
under any of the other headings. 



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In my Freshman year I was awarded $200 of the Price Greenleaf 
money; since then I have held no scholarship nor have I won any prizes. 

Since I have been in College I have earned, including vacation work, 
about $450 a year. Each vacation I have worked as head-waiter at a 
summer hotel, and in term time I have done work as follows : — 

Waiting on table at Randall Hall (at 25 cents an hour). 

Reading gas meters (about 35 cents an hour) . 

Tutoring. 

Boys' club work. 

Distributing circulars for campaign committee. 

Typewriter agent. 

Of a total expense of about $1755 in these three years I have been 
able to earn about $1350. The balance I have borrowed, partly from 
the Loan Fund and partly from a friend in my home town. 

Trusting that the above information may be of help to you I am 

Yours sincerely, 



Dear Sir: — 

In response to your letter of January 7, I am very glad 
to furnish you an account of my College expenses. 

When I entered Harvard as a Freshman in the autumn of 1906, the 
only money I could count on was $116 I had earned in the summer, 
and $150 Price Greenleaf Aid; in all, $266. During the first part of the 
College year I was not very fortunate in getting suitable work, and so 
earned only about $11, most of it by working in a store at Christmas 
vacation. At Mid-year, however, I secured a job waiting on table, 
which was worth $5.75 a week and lasted almost till the end of the Col- 
lege year. The money thus earned, together with what I had at the 
beginning of the College year, and $50 I borrowed from a relative, 
enabled me to meet all the necessary expenses of the Freshman year. 

I did not keep a detailed account of all my expenditures, so in the 
table which follows some of the amounts are only approximate. The 
total amount is, however, very nearly exact and includes everything. 
The amount for clothing may seem rather high; of course, how much 
one needs for clothing depends on how much clothing one has at the 
beginning of the College year. 



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Expense 

Tuition S150 

Room rent (one-half, including 

heat) 30 

Light 5 

Furniture (part rent) .... 8 

Membership of Randall Hall . 3 

Board (forty weeks at $3.25) . 130 

Condition examination fee . . 3 

Laboratory fee and supplies 14 

Infirmary fee 4 

Laundry 11 

Clothing 47 

Books, stationery, etc 15 

Sundries 15 

435 



Receipts 

Money earned summer before 

entering $116 

Money earned during college 
year: — 

Waiting 103 

Taking tickets 5 

Office work 3 

Assisting in store .... 8 

Price Greenleaf Aid 150 

Loan from a relative .... 50 

435 



Except for a few dollars included under the head of sundries, all the 
money I spent was for necessaries. Had I been able to afford it I could 
profitably have spent $25 more on what may be termed "extras," such 
as membership of the Harvard Union, athletics, entertainments, etc.; 
which, though not absolutely necessary, are a valuable part of College 
life. 

Hoping that the above particulars may be of some service to those 
who in the struggle for an education are handicapped by lack of means, 
I am, 

Sincerely yours, 



My dear Mr. : — 

My expenses per year, for my first three years, have been 
from $450 to $475. This includes clothing, travel, board, room, tuition, 
and all incidentals. I consider it of the utmost importance to give close 
attention to scholarship during the Freshman year, and to win a place 
in at least the second group, as a result of that first year's work. This 
is valuable in two ways: it lets one's teachers know that the student is 
in earnest, and that is of great value, if a man is working mostly in one 
department, such as engineering. It also lets one's fellow-students know 
that he is in earnest, and paves the way for later work, the most lucra- 
tive kind, of tutoring. 



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Receipts 
Freshman Year 

Tutoring $45 

Painting (house) 55 

Market (Saturday evenings) 15 

Draughting work 30 

Clerical, monitoring, chores (including sawing wood, 

care furnace, snow, waiting-tables) 50 

195 
Sophomore Year 

Scholarship 200 

Tutoring 75 

Draughting 30 

Monitoring, clerical, library 60 

365 
Junior Year 

Assisting in Engineering 3a 250 

Tutoring 75 

Commission, on securing advertisements 50 

Monitoring, clerical, library 50 

425 

My expenses in my Senior year will probably be as high as $600, owdng 
to graduating expenses, and others incident to a last year. I saved $110 
during the summer. Hold scholarship of $225. Assistantship of $125. 
Tutoring, probably $125 to $150. 

. I have always lived in a College room. 

Yours very truly, 



Dear Sir: — 

My expenses during my Freshman year approximated 
$500. Of this $100 was Price Greenleaf Aid, some was furnished by 
my father, and the balance was earned by "waiting" in Randall Hall, 
and some tutoring. The expenses of my Sophomore year, of which I 
kept an accurate account, amounted to $546.08. About $100 of this 
had been earned during the preceding summer, $40 came from the Bene- 
ficiary Fund, and $75 from the Loan Fund. The remainder was earned 
in the same manner as during Freshman year, or was sent by my father. 
The expenses of my Junior year, $729.50, were met by $75 from the Loan 
Fund, by earnings for work in the Warren House Libraries, or work 
at Mrs. Gardner's Museum, and tutoring, $50 came from the Beneficiary 
Fund, the rest from my father. I then took a year's leave of absence 
in order to earn enough money by tutoring to pay for all the expenses 
of my Senior year. Up to the present time I have paid out approxi- 



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mately $430. Expenses for the remainder of the year will be at least 
$300, for which I have $280 remaining from last year's earnings. To 
meet all my bills in June I shall need to secure tutoring work during 
this spring, which I have been unable to do up to the present time. 

Respectfully yours, 



My dear Sir : — 

When I came to Harvard last year — in the fall of 1906 
— I was able to count on receiving $25 a month from my father. I 
anticipated an expense for the year of about $500, so borrowed $250 
to bring my assets up to this figure. I beheved that the work during 
the first year in the Graduate School would be sufficiently exacting to 
make it worth while to borrow the money rather than to try, by out- 
side work, to earn my living expenses. I found that my estimate of 
$500 was not far astray. My account-book shows the following items 
for the year 1906-07 : — 

Tuition $150 

Room (furnished, in private house) 80 

Board 150 

Books 65 

Laundry 20 

Incidentals 60 

525 

I lived economically, but was never forced to cut down my board 
allowance, and finished the year in good shape physically. 

During the current year, I have lived in a College dormitory, occupy- 
ing half a room, which rents for $150. My expenses will be about the 
same this year as last. I am able to show a balance on the other side 
of the book at present, however. A University Scholarship balances the 
tuition; and a position teaching about eight hours a week in Boston pays 
$400, so at present I am just about "keeping even with the game" 
without having to borrow money or to draw on my father. 

Very truly yours. 



Dear Sir : — 

Your letter with reference to the expenses of a Graduate 
Student was duly received. I hope I am not too late in making the 
following reply : — 

I am one of the married students of the Graduate School, and my wife 
(we have no children) lived with me in Cambridge. I received no income 
from the College, and did no tutoring or teaching, but devoted my entire 



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time to the several courses in which I was registered. I kept no detailed 
account of expenses, but from the records of my cheque-book I can give 
a fairly accurate estimate of the expenditures for the year 1903-04. 

Rent (two rooms) $140.00 Medical treatment $5.00 

Board for two (forty weeks) . 400.00 Typewriter (Blickensderfer) 50.00 

Tuition and laboratory fees . 160.00 Concerts and theatre .... 5.50 

Graduation fee (A.M.) . . . 20.00 Miscellaneous expenses . . . 100.00 

Books 15.00 895.50 

This year we are keeping house. The rent of rooms is greater ($200 

instead of $140). This we understand is an average rate for married 

students who are keeping house, usually in two rooms. The cost of food 

for us both thus far averages about $3 to $3.25 per week (we are keeping 

careful accounts this year) . Laundry for us both averages about eighty 

cents per week ; clothes are partly rough dry. Fuel (for cooking only) 

and light amount to forty-seven cents per week. At the present rate our 

expenses for this year promise to be considerably less than those of last 

year. 

Very truly yours, 



Dear Sir : — 

I was not able to finish my answer to your request before 

now owing to various reasons. I sincerely hope it is not altogether too 

late. 

It would be of little service for me to tabulate my income, for it would 

need very copious notes to explain it adequately. I give below a table of 

expenses, and a few hints that I should like to make to any one entering 

upon his first year in the Graduate School. 

October to July 
Approximate Expenses 

1902-03 1903-04 1904-05 

Tuition $150.00 $150.00 $150.00 

Room 100.00 100.00 42.50 

Room incidentals (coal, gas, etc.) * . . . . . 10.00 

Board 75.00 80.00 80.00 

Railroad fare 30.00 30.00 30.00 

Clothing t 75.00 75.00 60.00 

Tobacco 

Books 50.00 50.00 50.00 

Clubs, Harvard Union, etc 5.00 15.00 15.00 

Incidentals 65.00 60.00 62.50 

550.00 560.00 500.00 

* Included in room-rent for 1902-03 and 1903-04, but charged separately at my present 
quarters. 

t Exclusive of underclothing, but including caps, hats, and shoes. 



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It is not wise for you to pay too much heed to the reports of very 
high or very low rates of living in Cambridge. I have made a rough 
estimate of my expenses each year during the three College years that 
I have spent or will spend here, and it will be very easy for you to 
add or subtract items thereto until you can arrive at some idea of what 
you can expect to have to meet yourself. The tuition charge is fixed. 
Your room-rent rests entirely with what you are willing to pay, although 
I should not advise you to take any single room that rents for less than 
sixty dollars, or a double one for less than one hundred. Your board bill 
will be higher than mine, for you live further away from Cambridge than 
Providence, and consequently you may miss going home as often as I do. 
You will also probably spend more upon your meals for a similar reason, 
since not having the ' ' home food " to vary your diet you will have to seek 
variety from the Randall Hall or Memorial Hall menu, and such variety 
costs more. The first year I was here I averaged about forty-two cents a 
day at Randall Hall, and the second year about sixty-five. You can get 
along very well indeed at fifty cents a day, three dollars and a half a week, 
boardlno- either at Randall or Memorial. I know of men who averao^ed 
less than two dollars weekly. It is possible, but I doubt the wisdom of it. 

You do not use tobacco, so you will save in that direction, as I do. 
Your clothing need not be any more costly than mine, save possibly that 
you might add the price of an overcoat or some other article, the need for 
which might arise this next year rather than later. I cannot tell what my 
underclothing has cost me. Fifty dollars is a very liberal estimate for 
books. You ought to do much better if you patronize the second-hand 
stalls at the book stores and watch for bargains. You should belong to 
the Graduate Club ($3) at any rate, and the Hars^ard Union ($10), if you 
can possibly arrange it. Under incidentals I have estimated street-car 
fares, theatres and amusements, drinks, candy, pictures and ornaments, 
and the host of small expenses which make so large a total if they are not 
watched. 

I can tell you little in regard to earning money here during the year. 
Tutoring, reporting for newspapers, canvassing, and other things of the 
kind, you can get something out of — more later than in the first year here. 
I have not tried to do much save during the summer months, when, as you 
know, I was assayer for gold and silver, teamster, messenger, canvasser, 
census enumerator, gas-meter surveyor, and other things. They all paid, 
especially the first, which was a very good position. You can take your 
choice of the others. With my scholarship and with some private income 
I have worked along. I shouldn't advise you to count very much on 
making money in Cambridge, at least not in the first year. Any further 
information I can give I shall be glad to furnish. 

Sincerely yours, 



78 

Dear Sib : — 

I am taking the earliest opportunity of answering your 
letter of November 14th in regard to my College expenses. I regret that 
I have been miable to answer before, owing to lack of time. 

I had already prepared a smnmary of my accomits for last year. I will 
begin with this : — 

Tuition $150.00 

Board 136.00 

Eoom (half) 85.00 

Gas and fuel 12.00 

Laundry. 22.00 

Books and stationery 20.00 

Amusements (class and club dinners, 

H. A. A. ticket, etc.) 50.00 

Dues (lockers, Coop., Debating Club) . 4.50 

Dues (Union) 10.00 

Carfare, trarelling expenses 20.00 

Miscellaneous (including clothing) . .. . 50.00 

Club dues 30.00 

590.00 (approximate) 
My receipts for last year were as follows : — 

Scholarship $225.00 

Earned, chiefly during summer 75.00 

Allowance from my father 290.00 

590.00 

The ' ' earned "" amount imder receipts was part of my wages luider 
Professor Johnson at Soldier's Field. I worked there for three months 
in connection with the Stadium. 

Under expenses it will- be seen that the amount for clothing was very 
small. Some of my clothing was bought during the summer, and does 
not appear in this statement. 

I have made no summaries for my two previous years, but with a few 
corrections the same statement ought to stand. The $30 for club dues 
vanish during these two years. The board bill was a little smaller each 
year. It was perhaps twenty dollars less during the first year. This 
fact is partly due to my having spent more time at home during my first 
year, though not wholly. The "amusements" item has also been a 
o-rowing one. It was probably $15 higher last year than the year before, 
and five dollars higher then than in my Freshman year. My room for 
the past two years has been $15 more than my room as a Freshman. 

On the other hand, the item ' ' miscellaneous " was probably considerably 
larger (say $25) during my Sophomore year than it was last year. 

On the whole, I think my total as a Freshman was a little over $500 
($510-$525). My total as a Sophomore was probably about $550. This 
shows an increase of about $35 per year, and I think this is a natural ten- 
dency, though perhaps a little exaggerated in this case. 



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As to earning money, I have little to say. I worked during the summer 
partly — ^or, I may say, largely — from preference. I tried, and suc- 
ceeded, in getting good, healthy outdoor work to offset the necessity of 
being indoors during the rest of the year. My first summer I did not 
work for pay, but studied at the Engineering Camp on Squam Lake. The 
second summer I spent, as mentioned, working on Soldier's Field. Last 
summer I served as an assistant instructor at the Engineering Camp. 

If I earned any money during the winter it was largely accidental, — 
that is, I was not seeking a chance to earn money during te'rm-time. 

My only suggestion for others is serving as monitors during Law School 
examinations, an opportunity, I think, not fully utilized. 

Very sincerely yours, 



Dear Sir : — 

The enclosed table of figures indicates the exact expense 
to me during the year of 1903-04 sj)ent in graduate Avork at Harvard 
University. "WTien entering the University in the fall of 1903 no income 
other than the $150 in scholarship was in sight. I succeeded in borrowing 
small amounts from two friends which I used until the payment of the 
scholarship was due. At the beginning of the second half-year I found it 
possible to accept assistantships in two courses, and with such aid I com- 
pleted the year. Although opportunities for tutoring came, I preferred to 
work in other ways, so that my tutoring work was very small. 

As from my experience at College I should advise the high school 
graduate to overcome the apparent obstacle of the lack of money and start 
out for college, so from my experience in the graduate work in the Uni- 
versity I should advise the man who can make a start but hesitates 
because he does not see the full way clear, to begin, and he must surely 
find ways opening up whereby he will be enabled to continue his work. 

Very truly yours. 



Academic Year 1903-Oi 
Expenses Sources of Income 

Tuition $150.00 Scholarship $150.00 

Room 100.00 Teaching in the University . 160.00 

Board a4 Randall Hall . . . 76.38 Loan from friend 125.00 

Travelling expenses .... 52.00 Loan from friend 60.00 

Clothing 35.00 495.00 

Books and science material . 20.00 

Degree of A.M 20.00 

Laundry ....;.... 10.00 

Laboratory fees 15.00 

478.38 



GENERAL SUMMARY 



Experience shows that it is possible to keep the strictly neces- 
sary expenses of tuition and residence down to about four 
hundred dollars a year; though to do this requires very careful 
economy. This sum every student should be able to count upon; 
and a large part of it he should actually have in hand when he 
enters College. With about four hundred dollars, he may feel 
assured of a year devoted mainly to study and to all those things 
that make a college training valuable. Without it, he will be 
constantly harassed by anxiety as to how he can meet his bills, 
and compelled to do work which will draw him from his studies, 
and which may prevent him from attaining scholarship rank 
and getting just those advantages for which he came to College. 
The first year is indeed the critical year at Harvard. In that 
year, outside of a few scholarships, the number of which is for- 
tunately increasing, the College has only the Price Greenleaf 
Fund from which to help Freshmen; and this aid is restricted by 
the terms of foundation to those students who are candidates 
for the degree of A.B. The Appointments Office tries to help 
the newcomer in finding work; but work that can be done at odd 
hours is not very remunerative; and a student cannot hope to 
earn by such means money enough to pay any considerable part 
of his expenses. Moreover, in securing work, the newcomer is 
at a disadvantage ; for he must compete with men who have been 
in College longer, and who are thoroughly acquainted with con- 
ditions which are still strange to him. Students, parents, and 
guardians, therefore, are earnestly advised to take every precau- 
tion they can to make the first year at Harvard a year in which, 
so far as money is concerned, a student is a free man. At the 
end of that year, if he has within him the making of a strong, 
self-reliant, capable man, he will, in almost every case, have 
found out how he may continue at College. 

To a boy now in his high school course, a year or two distant 
from College, and uncertain as to whether he can go to College 
or not, some further advice may be useful. Such a boy, even 



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though he may see now no possibility of ever coming to Harvard, 
will act most wisely if he takes as he goes along whatever steps 
are necessary to enable him to enter Harvard at the proper time, 
and to take advantage of whatever aid the College can give him. 
To put himself into proper relations with the College, he must 
pass certain examinations. Harvard differs from most colleges 
and universities by requiring for admission examinations which 
cover practically a whole high school course. These examina- 
tions are held in many parts of the United States; and the College 
accepts as substitutes for them the examinations of the College 
Entrance Examination Board, which are held in numerous other 
places. As the rules of the College permit a boy to take an 
examination in any subject in which he is recommended by his 
school a year or more before he is ready to enter College, these 
examinations offer an excellent means by which a boy can con- 
nect himself with the University, and measure his ability. 
Whether he comes to Harvard or not, success in these examina- 
tions will afford him the satisfaction of having proved his ability 
by Harvard standards; and the certificates he receives from the 
College will be tangible evidence of intellectual ability which may 
help him in many ways. Moreover, it is not wise for a boy to 
act on the assumption that he will not be able to do something 
in the future. Circumstances change rapidly; and the boy who 
early in his high school course wishes to come to Harvard, though 
he sees no way by which he can accomplish his wish, should do 
everything that he can to make the fulfilment of his wish possible 
at the proper time. This advice is directed especially to those 
boys who are in schools from which most of their comrades enter 
some college on certificates. Under the certificate system, it is 
easy for a boy to drift along, never submitting himself to any 
tests of his ability outside of the tests of his own school; then, 
when the time for decision comes, if his choice falls on Harvard, 
he is likely to find considerable difficulty in proving his fitness 
for admission. Any reader of this pamphlet may obtain informa- 
tion about the requirements for admission, the times and places 
of examinations, etc., by writing to the Secretary, 20 University 
Hall, Cambridge. 

To the boy whose coming to Harvard is dependent on some 
assistance from the College during his first year, this further 
advice about Price Greenleaf Aid may be helpful. To be eligible 
for this Aid, a boy must apply before the first of May in the year 
in which he wishes to enter. Even though a boy may have no 



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prospects of entering in the year he completes his examinations, 
he will do well to make an application for Price Greenleaf Aid 
before the first of May, as well as to take his examinations at the 
time he is ready for them. Then, if he is unexpectedly able to 
enter in September, every step will have been taken that must 
be taken in order that he may make the most of his chances. If 
he is admitted, and is also awarded aid from the Price Greenleaf 
Fund, but is after all unable to enter, the fact that he has received 
an award once will count in his favor in a subsequent year. It 
will be necessary for him to make another application for the aid 
before the first of May in the year in which he enters; but his 
chances of having the award repeated will be improved. 

It will be well, also, for a boy to inquire whether there is a 
Harvard Club in his locality, and whether in case such a club 
exists, it has established a scholarship for which he is eligible. 
Several Harvard Clubs have established Freshman scholarships, 
and the number is increasing. Inquiries should be addressed to 
the Secretary, 20 University Hall. 

If this pamphlet should fall into the hands of some young man 
to whom Harvard is scarcely more than a name, and he should 
wish to learn more particularl}^ about the University, he can 
obtain catalogues and pamphlets descriptive of the different 
departments of the institution by simply writing to the Secretary. 
Such documents, however, are necessarily formal. As this pamph- 
let is of the nature of an extended letter, it may be helpful to 
some young men to call attention here to certain advantages 
which Harvard University is particularly well able to afford to 
its students, advantages due to the situation of the University, 
the great number of teachers and students gathered within it, 
and to the system and organization of its instruction. 

.The point of interest about the situation at Harvard to a young 
man who is planning to go to college, is that its position in a very 
large community, rich in its inheritance from the past and in 
educational advantages of many kinds, greatly increases for him 
opportunities both for self-improvement and self-realization. Cam- 
bridge, in which most of the departments of the University are 
situated, is a city of about one hundred thousand inhabitants, and 
lies adjacent to Boston, a very much larger city. In the vicinity 
of the College, Cambridge still retains many of the features of a 
college town, but half an hour's ride in the street cars takes one 
into the heart of Boston. Residence at the University, there- 
fore, provides a young man not only with the accumulated re- 



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sources of a University whose life goes back to the very begin- 
nings of American civiUzation, but also with all the resources of 
a great city, its libraries, museums, theatres, its opportunities to 
hear good music and lectures by famous men, and to participate 
in all those activities which are possible only through the cooper- 
ation of many people. And not only does a young man at Har- 
vard find that he has numberless opportunities to receive; he also 
has many opportunities to give. If he has a talent of any kind, 
he is sure to find ways of using iand increasing it. As the account 
of the Appointments Office and as some of the letters show, the 
situation of Harvard is a strong factor in making the University 
a place where a young man can find almost unlimited opportuni- 
ties to fit himself for the work that he will do after leaving College . 
Another feature of Harvard due to the great size of the Uni- 
versity, is the large number and variety of interests within it, 
and the corresponding range of opportunities for the individual 
to gain useful experience. This great variety of interests at 
Harvard is well illustrated by a story told by Dean Briggs in 
''Harvard and the Individual": — 

"A story told by Professor Palmer and afterward printed by Mr. E. S. 
Martin reveals the divided interests of Harvard. On the evening of a 
mass meeting in Massachusetts Hall for the discussion of some point in 
the athletic relations between Harvard and Yale, Professor Palmer went 
to Sever Hall, where Mr. David A. Wells was to lecture on banking; and 
as he went he was troubled by the thought that 'those boys' would 
all be in Massachusetts Hall, and that Mr. Wells would have no audience. 
Arri\'ing at the lecture hall, which seats over four hundred persons, he 
found standing-room only; and it was not Cambridge women that filled 
the seats — it was Harvard students. After the lecture, remembering 
that there should be that evening a meeting of the Classical Club, he 
went to the top of Stoughton Hall to find there between "twenty and 
thirt}^ men,, who, oblivious alike of banking and of Yale, had spent the 
evening in a discussion of Homeric philology. 'Harvard indifference,' 
says one critic; 'Harvard University,' says another. Much of the 
strength of Harvard lies in her variety of interests. Side by side with 
the boys whose passion is foot-ball are the men whose passion is mathe- 
matics or philosophy, who care nothing for mtercollegiate politics and 
less than nothing for intercollegiate athletics; and such is the freedom of 
Harvard that these men are suffered to follow their own bent, and are 
not forced into a life with which they have no sympathy. To one who 
has lived in Harvard College it is the college of all colleges for the recog- 
nition of individual needs and individual rights; of the inevitable and 
delightful variety in talent and temperament, and even in enthusiasm. 



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When all the people in one place are interested in one thing, it may be 
inspiration, and it may be provinciality. When everybody in a univer- 
sity shouts at every ball game, athletics prosper, but culture pines. 
Where Greek and the chapel are elective, base-ball should not be pre- 
scribed ; and where base-ball is not prescribed, there are sure to be indi- 
viduals who cannot always occupy either the diamond or the bleachers." 

As this story may suggest, no one who has an intellectual in- 
terest need feel lonely at Harvard. In almost every line of intel- 
lectual activity he will find students already organized in groups 
to supplement the instruction of the University by such concerted 
action as is possible only where great numbers of instructors and 
students are gathered together. If he is interested in modern 
languages and literatures, he will find large well organized clubs 
of students, by whose activities the instruction of the Colleges is 
supplemented in valuable ways — thus, both the Cercle Franyais 
and the Deutscher Verein not only provide intellectual fellowship 
but also opportunities for the exercise of talents and the acquisi- 
tion of kinds of knowledge impossible to acquire through College 
courses merely. Each club produces classic plays every year; 
and both are the means by which students may hear distinguished 
foreigners. If he is interested in music, he finds numerous student 
organizations though which he may exercise his skill and obtain 
the sympathy and the opportunities necessary for the develop- 
ment of his own talents. Every year the Harvard Musical Club 
gives concerts at which are performed original compositions by 
students. If he is interested in journalism, he finds within the 
undergraduate department alone, five periodicals, a daily news- 
paper, and fortnightly and monthly periodicals. If he is inter- 
ested in teaching or in any of the forms of social service, he finds 
through the Prospect Union, the Cambridge Social Union, and 
the Phillips Brooks House Association, numberless ways of gain- 
ing experience and of rendering service. These student activities 
mentioned above are but a few of those that exist. The point of 
special interest to the young man to whom this pamphlet is 
chiefly addressed is that at Harvard, owing to the large number 
of instructors and students and the great variety of interests 
they represent, a young man may get before he leaves College 
much experience which will be very useful to him after he leaves 
College. 

The feature of Harvard which if properly understood may 
interest most a young man who is earnestly seeking for the best 
means of developing his own powers is its system of instruction. 



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Many seem not to realize the great freedom of opportunity for 
the individual that the College seeks to provide. Among the 
questions frequently asked are, "What studies must I take?" or 
''What are the Freshman, or Sophomore, or Junior, or Senior 
subjects?" At Harvard class names have practically no relation 
to the work of an individual student. In some courses of instruc- 
tion, Freshmen and Seniors may sit side bj' side because so far as 
that subject is concerned the individuals are at the same stage 
of development. The plan under which instruction is organized 
aims to secure the greatest possible freedom of opportunity for 
the individual. Each student is permitted to shape his own 
programme of work year by year, and in so doing is afforded 
every opportunity of obtaining expert advice. Both the system 
and the spirit of the place help each man to find his own level. 
If at the time of his admission he is more mature than the average 
boy who comes fresh from his high school, or if he has made, 
independently of his school, greater progress in some directions 
than his comrades, the system permits him to go ahead, and 
every effort is made to remove merely artificial obstacles from 
the path of his intellectual progress. 

This pamphlet has been prepared to give to young men inquir- 
ing about Harvard facts which it is hoped will be of service to 
them in planning for a college education. The following direc- 
tory of administrative officers will show them how they may get 
any more specific information that the}' may require. 

For further information about matters referred to in this 
pamphlet, for all general information, copies of catalogues and 
descriptive pamphlets, and for answers to questions relating 
solely to Harvard College, apply to Mr. J. G. Hart, Secretary, 
20 University Hall. 

For answers to questions relating solely to the Graduate School 
of Arts and Sciences, apply to Mr. G. W. Robinson, Secretary, 
10 University Hall. 

For answers to questions relating solely to the Graduate School 
of Applied Science, apply to Professor W. C. Sabine, Dean, 16 
University Hall. 

For answers to questions relating solely to the Graduate School 
of Business Administration, apply to Professor E. F. Gay, Dean, 
23 University Hall. 




020 773 572 3 



The Academic Year begins on the Thursday 
following the last Wednesday in September 
and closes on the last Wednesday in June. 

The Summer School opens about the fifth of 
July and continues for six weeks. 

For information concerning any department of 
the University, and concerning tuition, rooms, 
and board, and for copies of the Announcement 
of Courses of Instruction, Descriptive Pamphlets 
in the several Departments of study, and other 
documents, application should be made to the 
Secretary, 20 University Hall. 

All official letters and applications intended 
for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, or for 
any Board or Committee, or for any University 
Officer, may be directed to the Secretary's Office, 
20 University Hall, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 



For copies of this pamphlet apply to J. G. Hart, Secretary. 



